Re: os x 10.2.x has 8 character password limit

["S . f . Stover" <attica () stackheap org>]

On 24 Nov 03 02:48:56PM Randal L. Schwartz[merlyn () stonehenge com] wrote:
: >>>>> "S" == S f Stover <attica () stackheap org> writes:
: 
: S> Just spoke to Apple tech support and they confirmed this is a known
: S> limitation of 10.2 which was purposefully fixed in 10.3 (panther).
: 
: Why is this surprising?  All Unix versions have had this limitation,
: and OSX is a version of Unix.

Not really trying to surprise anyone.  Just another reason to upgrade to
Panther.

Although, I tested FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT and RedHat 9.0 and neither of which had
this "feature".

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