Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> As people on the forums have pointed out, a worrying number of things 
> have a /maximum/ password length. (!) Quite apart from taking a long 
> time to type a whole sentence, many systems won't allow you to use one 
> as a password.

  For a very long time unixes used only 8 character passwords at most.
(You could write more, but everything after the 8th character was ignored
and could thus be anything.)

  I think most modern unixes have lifted this limitation.

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                                                          - Warp

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