Re:Let them paste passwords
by pmontra on Thursday May 18, 2017 @10:39AM
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I guess it comes from old UNIX passwords (80s and before). They were limited to 8 characters if my memory doesn't fail me. But they were already stored with one way encryption.
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Your memory's fine.
man 3 crypt => https://linux.die.net/man/3/crypt
Thanks.
That prompted me to google up a summary of the password length limits of various operating systems https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/22721/password-...