Re: NT4 password limited to 14 characters ?

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The unicodePwd attribute in AD takes values up to 256 bytes, but since the
password is stored as unicode (2 bytes per char), the effective max length
is 128. This applies to AD. I'm not sure about the NT4 stuff and don't
want to know. :)

(Not Joe R...)

Joe K.

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"Paul Bergson [MVP-DS]" <pbergson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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It has been so long but thought NT4 was 14 characters and 2000/2003 was
127 characters.

Where did you see Joe pointed out 128? Joe is about as smart a guy as you
are going to find, when it comes to AD.

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2003, 2000 (Early Achiever), NT

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"Pascal" <pascal_t@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

sorry for this "noob" question but is there a password limit on NT4 SP6a
?

Indeed, I am not able to define a password that has more than 14
characters length.

Sometimes I read that the limitation is 128 characters (Joe Richards post
!! ;-)) and sometimes it is 14 characters.

Please someone could help me as we have an MIIS pssword synchronisation
between NT4 and AD and so we have to "limit" the AD password to this
length) ?

Thank you

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Pascal






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