A's: 1. 8 characters is limitation of CRYPT method of encryption that is still in use on Solaris (I believe it is still like this for NIS compatibility). In LDAP you have a choice of using a variety of encryption methods (CRYPT,MD5,SHA). 2. It is possible to have passwords longer than 8 chars...you may change the password format from crypt to anything else. Crypt means max. 8 and min. 6 chars length. At least every LDAP Software are able to do this, also iPlanet. See under http://www.sun.com/blueprints/1000/ldap-sol8.pdf 3. It will vary depending upon the ldap implementation. The userPassword attribute may be defined differently on different ldap servers. On ours, for instance (http://www.cp.net/solutions/platform-ims-directory.html), it defaults to 128 characters in length. -----Original Message----- re: sol8 and iplanet products like ldap and directory server... just as the usable password length on sol8 is eight (8) characters... do you know if the usable password length is still 8 for other ldap? thanks. rf _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Thu Mar 7 21:23:12 2002
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