Password length problems

[Yury Averkiev]

Yes, client sends only first 8 characters of your password. Actually this is
very misleading,
since VNC viewer allows to enter password of any length, and many users gets
confused about
that.

Yury 

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vnc-list-admin@realvnc.com 
> [mailto:vnc-list-admin@realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Graham Payton
> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 3:42 PM
> To: VNC Mailing List (E-mail)
> 
> Hi
>  
>  
> We are running VNC v3.3.6 and 3.3.7 on several machines.  These use a
> mixture of Windows 98 and Windows 2000.
>  
> My question is whether there is a maximum length for a VNC password.
>  
> The password I am trying to use is in the format similar to 
> "hello1234".
>  
> I set this on the server for each PC, but I find that I can 
> then log on with
> just using "hello123" or "hello123" plus any other extra 
> characters on the
> end of it as well.
>  
> Is this a known bug, or is the password maximum simply 8 characters.
>  
>  
> Thanks
>  
>  
> Graham
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