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I have been enlisted to work on an older EE site (1.6.0).  When trying to log in I get the following error:

Important notice: The administrator has changed the access requirements for this site as follows:

Usernames must be at least 4000000000 characters in length

Your username is currently 7 characters long

Passwords must be at least 50000000000 characters in length

Your password is currently 8 characters long

It won’t let me get past this screen unless I change the un/pw to comply. I was able to find where to change this directly in the database but the info is serialized and editing it directly causes other issues. 

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Hi nickgoe42,

Try adding the following to your config.php

$conf['un_min_len'] = '4';
$conf['pw_min_len'] = '5';

This will override what is set in the control panel

Thank you!  That worked beautifully.  Just an FYI for others I also had to add:

$conf['admin_session_type'] = 's';

Glad John was able to help. Don’t hesitate to post again as needed.