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nubinetwork • today at 12:02 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

Unix crypt only accepted 8 characters and ignored the rest. If your password was 123456789, it was considered the same as 12345678a.


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a_bonobo • today at 12:59 AM

For local LAN play, Half-Life checked the CD key only for length I believe? It would happily accept 1234-56789-0123