Re: HPUX Minimum password length

From: rightzy (rightzy_at_earthnet.net)
Date: 04/04/04

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    Sorry for just know answering...I've been gone for a while.

    Unless HP has changed it, if you have any passwords longer than 6
    characters before converting to trusted mode, they will be locked out
    after the conversion.

    bishop@speakeasy.net wrote:
    > rightzy <rightzy@earthnet.net> wrote:
    >
    >>Just be careful you don't lock yourself out of the system when you go to
    >>trusted mode. You can't have passwords longer than 6 characters the
    >>last time I did it.
    >
    >
    > LONGER than 6 characters? TCB is supposed to allow passwords of up to
    > *forty* characters. What were the symptoms of inability to have
    > passwords longer than 6 characters?
    >

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