[p4] long passwords

[Matt Craighead]

Some experiments I've just run seem to suggest that Perforce truncates
passwords longer than 16 characters back down to 16 characters before
storing or comparing them.  Is this correct?  I don't see anything in either
the user or administrator docs talking about a maximum password length.

 I can put in whatever garbage I want after those first 16 characters in the
password, and it doesn't seem to make a difference.

 Note: this does *not* apply to tickets, where all 32 hex digits appear to
be significant (and in fact even changing uppercase to lowercase hex digits
will give you an error).

I'm also seeing some particularly unusual behavior with >16 character
passwords via the p4api, but I haven't entirely figured out what is going on
yet, so I'll refrain from speculating as to what the issue is.

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Matt Craighead
Founder/CEO, Conifer Systems LLC
http://www.conifersystems.com
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