Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!jmg
From: jmg@cernvax.UUCP (jmg)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: FTP vs. VMS & long passwords
Message-ID: <626@cernvax.UUCP>
Date: 3 Mar 88 13:30:08 GMT
References: <8802292102.AA06989@macduff.ultra.com>
Reply-To: jmg@cernvax.UUCP ()
Organization: CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
Lines: 15

In article <8802292102.AA06989@macduff.ultra.com> shj@ultra.UUCP (Steve Jay) writes:
>
>   "530 Login failed (bad Username or Password), give new USER and PASS "
>
>when attempting to use FTP server on a VAX VMS system, and the password
>for the VAX account is over 8 characters long.

Same problem seen on trying to FTP to a Vax from the IBM TCP/IP on our
VM system.
(After hacking attacks many people go beyond 8 characters!)
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