On Nov 4, 2010, at 11:42 AM, Stefano Mori wrote:
>
> On 4 Nov 2010, at 16:25, Macs R We wrote:
>
>> In either Leopard or Snow Leopard they shortened the max length of an Apple
>> Remote Desktop password to eight characters or so. I have found that
>> machines that have long passwords left over from a previous OS and so won't
>> "match" incoming requests until a new shorter password is set.
>
> Odd, I'm pretty sure I've got very long pass phrases with ARD with L and SL
Actually, it looks like I'm talking about the field "VNC viewers may control
the screen with password:" Apple did shorten that in either 10.5 or 10.6.
I've never used the actual complete ARD product, I've always just used the
server side to respond to a VNC client.
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