> I was using Solaris for more than a decade until a couple of years ago. In > Solaris, though it gave no warning and accepted any password, only the first > 8 characters of the password were used. So if a user entered the password > "correct horse battery staple", the password would be "correct ", with the > space. This created a blatantly obvioius security problem that Sun didn't > seem to mind at all. Related: Passwords for Wells Fargo's Online Banking aren't case sensitive. UGH! -- Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://andy.zibnet.us IT Outhouse Blog Thing | http://www.itouthouse.com