Re: NT4 password limited to 14 characters ?

Fair enough. That still begs the question: how does Pascal, the OP,
enable passwords of more than 14 characters on a Windows NT4 domain?

J Wolfgang Goerlich

On Jul 21, 11:10 pm, "Steve Riley [MSFT]" <steve.ri...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
There are two hashes:
* LM
* NT

There are four authentication methods:
* LM
* NTLM
* NTLMv2
* Kerberos

Here's how they relate:
* LM authentication uses the LM hash
* NTLM, NTLMv2, and Kerberos all use the NT hash

(It's incorrect to say "NTLM" or "NTLMv2" hash.)

LM hashes (and it's really a stretch to call them "hashes") are generated
only if both of these are true:
* You haven't disabled LM hash generation
* Your password length is 14 characters or less

In NT 4.0, the User Manager wouldn't permit you to enter a password longer
than 14 characters. Windows 2000 and higher permit entering a password up to
127 characters; the actual maximum length is 255 characters.

If, however, you meet a certain, ah, esoteric set of requirements, your
minimum length must be at least 18,770 characters. :) Actually, that's a UI
bug described inhttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/q276304/. Still, it's
funny.

Steve Riley
steve.ri...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx://blogs.technet.com/steriley


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