Re: More on Passwords

From: Daniel Koepke (dkoepke@CALIFORNIA.COM)
Date: 03/06/98


On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Mark A. Heilpern wrote:

->As Dan said, yes, it should be set to 13 (or perhaps 14, allowing for a
->null termination) as the crypt() function returns a string of 13 characters
->long regardless of the actual password.
->

I said 13 because CircleMUD does,

  char pwd[MAX_PWD_LENGTH+1];

in the char_file_u structure, so it already accounts for the '\0'. <g>


-dak


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