[rt-users] What's the *Maximum* password length in RT?

Todd Chapman todd at chaka.net
Mon Jun 26 15:32:25 EDT 2006


On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 12:19:39PM -0700, Schultz, Eric wrote:
> It's the max length of the field in the database :-)  This is by default
> 40, as Joshua mentioned.
> 

No. 40 is the length of the MD5 hash. The password can basically
be as long as you want. Just because the hashed password
is 40 characters loing doesn't mean you only get 40 characters 
of security.



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