On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:51:39 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

> 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!)

Yep, that it would - Kerberos wouldn't have the same limitation as NTLM.

Jim

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