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- From: sanju@churchill.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM (Sanjeev.Agrawal)
- Subject: Re: FAQ: Does passwd length vary on different platforms?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.152428.19216@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM>
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- References: <1993Jan19.173354.6009@clarify.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 20:24:27 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan19.173354.6009@clarify.com>, frank@clarify.com (Frank H. Lai) writes:
- |> It may be a FAQ. Sorry if I ask a trivial question.
- |> Since I took over a Oracle project recently, people were asking about
- |> the length of the passwd of a Oracle account. I tried it out on Sparc and
- |> it was 30 characters. However, I can not say it is 30 characters of all
- |> the platforms that Oracle supports. Does anyone know about this?
- |> Where usually do people find the limitation of Oracle's product?
- |>
- |> Please forgive a beginner's ignorance!!
- |>
- |> Frank
- |> frank@clarify.com
- |> 408-428-4028
- |>
- As far as my understanding goes this is 30 chars and is independent of
- platforms as it is stored in Oracle data dictionary. And for that matter
- except database names all Oracle objects can be upto 30 chars.
-
- Hope it helps !
-
- Sanjeev
-