> I was using Solaris for more than a decade until a couple of years ago. In
> Solaris, though it gave no warning and accepted any password, only the first
> 8 characters of the password were used.  So if a user entered the password
> "correct horse battery staple", the password would be "correct ", with the
> space.  This created a blatantly obvioius security problem that Sun didn't
> seem to mind at all.

Related: Passwords for Wells Fargo's Online Banking aren't case sensitive. UGH!

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