[JDEV] max pw length?

[Matthias Wimmer]

Hi Peter!

Peter Saint-Andre schrieb am 2003-12-18 16:19:06:
> I just helped someone who has an account on jabber.org with password
> troubles. His pw was 32 characters long (not sure if he registered with
> that pw or changed it after registration -- I think the latter). He
> could not log in with Gabber, Gaim, or Tkabber. When I truncated the pw
> to 16 characters, he was able to log in. Is this a jabberd 1.4 thing or
> a client thing?

I expect that this is a client issue, but I never really checked it. The
only exception is, if you enable hashed passwords and use traditional
crypt(), only the frist 8 characters of the password are checked.

I'll check if there is a (server-side) limit later today ...


Tot kijk
    Matthias

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