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Why is OS X limited to an 8 character password?
See the title. It seems bizarre/incredibly lame that we are limited to only 8 characters. Is there a hack that would make OS X use more than 8 characters?
Why is OS X limited to an 8 character password?
Ugh, I wish there were *no* passwords in OSX. I'm computer savvy enough to know when I'm sharing using FTP or allowing telnet access. I've despised passwords all my life, and will continue to do so until passwords become seemless (and, ironically, the only way for that to happen is to not have passwords).
This is why, so I've heard.
In a word: AppleTalk. AppleTalk has always been restricted to having a password with a maximum of 8 characters. Apparently, Apple felt it necessary (to make things consistent, I guess) to restrict everything to 8 characters, in order to make AppleShare serving and client applications as simple as possible. |
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