[sork] password string length

[Eric Rostetter]

Quoting Erik Slooff <erik@slooff.com>:

> I was wondering if it's a good idea to have 2 variables defined per server in 
> passwd/config/conf.php for password length control. Eg. min_password_length
> and max_password_length added to the $conf['server']['......'] arrays.

Still not warm on the idea of having seperate size restrictions per server.
Leaving it as a global size limit for all servers for the time being. Have
not heard any complaints about that, so I assume everyone else is happy with
that arrangement.

> To prevent this you could show a message in the password change screen that 
> shows what the min and max length should be (and maybe even adjust the field 
> length in the form?).

The forms are now adjusted to the maxlength if it is present, so the user
can not enter more than maxlength characters in the form.  Any additional
message(s) would probably be overkill, so I didn't add any. In CVS HEAD only
for now.

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