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| author | Todd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2021-04-14 14:00:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Todd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2021-04-14 14:00:00 +0000 |
| commit | ac204779d2c1395116d980e4f1ba5ee323ebe1ea (patch) | |
| tree | 41ee2761094f9f5ae96be495e80ec9026b3f3106 /usr.bin | |
| parent | 7bbde89bed33c3a703b008a299e88c5015bc63c6 (diff) | |
_PASSWORD_LEN is no longer the limit for an unencrypted password.
It is now used as the max length of the encrypted password hash.
From Benjamin Baier.
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/passwd/passwd.1 | 7 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/passwd/passwd.1 b/usr.bin/passwd/passwd.1 index 33167ecb81a..262e7bffa0f 100644 --- a/usr.bin/passwd/passwd.1 +++ b/usr.bin/passwd/passwd.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: passwd.1,v 1.46 2019/04/23 17:52:12 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: passwd.1,v 1.47 2021/04/14 13:59:59 millert Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California. .\" All rights reserved. @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ .\" .\" from: @(#)passwd.1 6.11 (Berkeley) 7/24/91 .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: April 23 2019 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: April 14 2021 $ .Dt PASSWD 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -51,9 +51,6 @@ The new password must be entered twice to avoid typing errors. .Pp The new password should be at least six characters long and not purely alphabetic. -Its total length must be less than -.Dv _PASSWORD_LEN -(currently 128 characters). A mixture of both lower and uppercase letters, numbers, and meta-characters is encouraged. .Pp |