Jim Henderson wrote:

> What is the current max length of a Windows password?  I know my 20-
> character password had to be cut down to 14 IIRC on WinNT and possibly 
> Win2K - the dumb thing seemed to be that when setting the password, the 
> password got truncated and then hashed, but when checking, it was hashed 
> as is (or vice versa), so if you set your password to a value that was 
> too long, you could never login.

Isn't that cute?

Yes, I ran into this too. I think it varies depending on whether you use 
LANMAN or Kerberos. (So... it's nice and reliable then!)

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