Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!udel!udccvax1!sun.udel.edu!barry From: barry@sun.udel.edu (Barry Fausnaugh) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: Limitations imposed by AppleShare's User Authentication Method (UAM).. Message-ID: <13386@sun.udel.edu> Date: 15 Aug 90 14:21:36 GMT References: Reply-To: barry@sun.udel.edu (Barry Fausnaugh) Organization: University of Delaware Lines: 10 In article ADAMS@INTELLICORP.COM (Kevin Adams) writes: >only up to 6 characters. From a security standpoint, this seems to be too few. >Most timesharing/server operating systems provide for passwords up towards >16 or 32 characters. Now, realistically, nobody uses much more than, say, 10. I have had AppleShare type passwords which are longer than 6 characters. Perhaps you could elaborate on the circumstances of your 6 character password limit. For example, what version of AppleShare are you using? Barry Fausnaugh