• chaos@beehaw.org
      6·
      3 days ago

      Older Unix systems used to only do the first 8 bytes for passwords. Sometimes for my own amusement when logging into one of the Sun machines at school, I’d type in enough of my password to count and then just mash the keyboard.

      • Senal@programming.devEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        for a long time, hotmail (and i think windows live mail) only checked the first 16 characters.

        • lad@programming.devEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          That’s almost as good as the ones that limit password on the sign-in UI, but not on the sign-up

          • fuzzzerd@programming.devEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            I have run across one that allowed arbitrary length when doing account creation and password reset but silently truncated the login input.

            Took me hours to figure out that my password was longer than the documented length, try it and then have no problems.

  • FizzyOrange@programming.dev
    7·
    3 days ago

    Git’s autocrlf feature causes more issues than it solves in my experience. I don’t think there are really any tools on Windows that can’t handle Unix line endings any more. Even notepad can now.

    I recommend you set it to input which will fix them to be Unix line endings on commit, and not change them back on checkout.