[4531] in Athena Bugs
Re: password length
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon A. Rochlis)
Thu Mar 15 15:36:27 1990
From: jon@MIT.EDU (Jon A. Rochlis)
To: Mark Rosenstein <mar@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU, jon@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 15 Mar 90 13:13:46 -0500.
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 90 15:36:10 EST
accept *long* passwords (like 80 characters or more)
truncate what the user typed to 8 characters
Programs which get kerberos tickets should not truncate passwords
every, IMHO. Kerberos passwords are only limited by the length of the
buffers in the password reading program.
