Re: Password aging

[Cal Frye <cjf () CALFRYE COM>]

Scott Bradner wrote:

> > =3D=3D> The password must be 7 or 8 characters.=20
>
>
> rather than longer than 7 characters?  (its a real pain to truncate
> a string when there is no real need)

Older Macintosh systems can only accept a password of less than 9
characters. Bit me the first time I was in a public lab and tried to log
into my administrative account.

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