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From: brett at hutley.net (Brett Hutley) Subject: os x 10.2.x has 8 character password limit S . f . Stover wrote: > On 24 Nov 03 02:48:56PM Randal L. Schwartz[merlyn@...nehenge.com] wrote: > : >>>>> "S" == S f Stover <attica@...ckheap.org> writes: > : > : S> Just spoke to Apple tech support and they confirmed this is a known > : S> limitation of 10.2 which was purposefully fixed in 10.3 (panther). > : > : Why is this surprising? All Unix versions have had this limitation, > : and OSX is a version of Unix. > > Not really trying to surprise anyone. Just another reason to upgrade to > Panther. > > Although, I tested FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT and RedHat 9.0 and neither of which had > this "feature". Most Unix operating systems have switched to using a more secure encryption mechanism than the old-style crypt(3). -- Brett Hutley [MAppFin,CISSP,SANS GCIH] mailto:brett@...ley.net http://hutley.net/brett
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