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Date:      Fri, 22 Oct 1999 23:27:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Vincent Poy <vince@venus.GAIANET.NET>
To:        cjclark@home.com
Cc:        FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE passwd issue
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910222326430.5072-100000@venus.GAIANET.NET>
In-Reply-To: <199910230455.AAA34689@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>

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On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Crist J. Clark wrote:

> Vincent Poy wrote,
> [snip]
> > 
> > 	Seems for some reason, unless I go into vipw and delete the entire
> > password, the passwd program will just write MD5 instead of DES since it
> > had the $ before it.
> 
> Oh, yeah. That's a know "gotcha." Once you set the password to one
> format, the only way to change it is to go in manually with vipw.
> 
> But to the original problem, those 13 character passwords you said you
> originally had, the DES ones, should work fine.

	Yeah, thanks for fixing the mixup....  But what's the maximum
characters allowed for MD5 and DES for passwords?


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