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		munk-a on Oct 20, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I couldn't debug the code because of my name I maintained a system where we had unbounded password length... but only respected the first six characters of the password. (we did fix that).

aidenn0 on Oct 20, 2021 | [–]

Unix passwords worked that way for 8 characters for many years due to the crypt algorithm used.

stzsch on Oct 21, 2021 | | [–]

IIRC VNC passwords are still like this.

bradknowles on Oct 22, 2021 | [–]

Sounds like some banks I’ve heard of.

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