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After the implementation of Kerberos 5, we learned that anyone changing 
their password to longer than 8 characters would no longer be able to use 
services authenticated by Sentinel. We also learned that ANGEL is similarly 
affected. Therefore we temporarily changed
NetID.msu.edu<http://NetID.msu.edu>to limit the max password length to
8, and the Kerberos config to allow a
password as short as 6 characters. AIS is working on the Sentinel-Kerberos 
issue, and the ACNS ANGEL team is working on that side.
 After these issues are resolved, we do plan on going forward with the 
policy of 8 characters as the minimum password length. 
 /rich
 On 5/16/05, Michael Surato <<a href="/cgi-bin/wa?LOGON=A3%3Dind0505%26L%3DMSUNAG%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D123002%26B%3D------%253D_Part_10725_29014642.1116274251128%26T%3Dtext%252Fplain%3B%2520charset%3DISO-8859-1" >[log in to unmask]</a>> wrote: 
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> Hi,
> 
> After the implementation of Kerberos 5 I was under the impression that
> users could have a NetID password of at least 8 characters, with an
> upper limit of 255 characters. When I helped a user to change their
> password today, I was surprised that the system enforced a password
> length of at least 6 characters, but not more than 8 characters. Is this
> the manner that it was supposed to work? If so, I would be interested in
> why an upper limit of 8 characters is required.
> 
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