[Full-Disclosure] os x 10.2.x has 8 character password limit

[Brett Hutley]

S . f . Stover wrote:

> On 24 Nov 03 02:48:56PM Randal L. Schwartz[merlyn at stonehenge.com] wrote:
> : >>>>> "S" == S f Stover <attica at 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".

Most Unix operating systems have switched to using a more secure 
encryption mechanism than the old-style crypt(3).

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