Re: passwords longer than 8 characters


Subject: Re: passwords longer than 8 characters
From: Thomas Kaiser (Thomas.Kaiser@phg-online.de)
Date: Thu Jul 26 2001 - 15:48:40 EDT


am 26.07.2001 20:25 Uhr schrieb Miller.Jonathan:

> there's a problem when people have passwords longer than 8 characters.

Support for more than 8 chars in passwords came with DHX authentication.

> Is there some way, maybe through a UAM, to have it accept longer passwords?

If you have a recent AppleShare Client (Apple recommends 3.8.8 if you want
to change you passwords through chooser: <http://til.info.apple.com/techinfo
.nsf/artnum/n60792>) and compiled a recent Netatalk version with DHX
Authentication, things will work as expected. :-)

Regards,

Thomas



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