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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
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Subject: Re: Limitations imposed by AppleShare's User Authentication Method (UAM)..
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Date: 15 Aug 90 21:10:40 GMT
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In article <6365@milton.u.washington.edu> kraig@milton.u.washington.edu (Kraig Eno) writes:
>yells at me.  The reason this is important is that my "AppleShare" servers
>are actually Unix machines (accessed via NFS through a GatorBox), and my
>passwords can easily be over 8 characters long.

The UNIX's I use on a regular basis (DEC, NeXT, Sun, Convex, Sequent,
Pyramid, 4.3bsd) will allow you to type as many characters as you like
for your password, but blithely ignore all but the first 8.

So you don't really have to worry in regard to UNIX.

(I agree that passwords shouldn't be limited to 8 characters, though.)
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Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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