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Re:I couldn't debug the code because of my name by munk-a on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @04:46PM (#28936283)
I maintained a system where we had unbounded password length... but only respected the first six characters of the password. (we did fix that).
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Re:I couldn't debug the code because of my name by aidenn0 on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @07:08PM (#28938043)
Unix passwords worked that way for 8 characters for many years due to the crypt algorithm used.
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Re:I couldn't debug the code because of my name by stzsch on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @08:07PM (#28938547)
IIRC VNC passwords are still like this.
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Re:I couldn't debug the code because of my name by bradknowles on Friday October 22, 2021 @03:21AM (#28954479)
Sounds like some banks I’ve heard of.
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