17 Jan
2005
17 Jan
'05
13:38
Alexander Barton alex@barton.de wrote: [Password length limit]
It has been choosen because I couldn't find a restriction in the RFCs either, and because UNIX passwords are historically limited to 8 characters. That's it. Not a strong reason ;-)
Ok, i just looked at the ircd-irc2 sources (more specifically, ircd-irc2_2.10.3p5.orig.tar.gz from backports.org). The Password length is defined to 20 and declared as "char passwd[PASSWDLEN+1];" (in common/struct_def.h).
Perhaps ngircd should do the same for compatibility?
Thanks, Florian