From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 22 23:27:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from venus.GAIANET.NET (venus.GAIANET.NET [207.211.200.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2865415048 for ; Fri, 22 Oct 1999 23:27:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vince@venus.GAIANET.NET) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by venus.GAIANET.NET (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA39839; Fri, 22 Oct 1999 23:27:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vince@venus.GAIANET.NET) Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 23:27:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Vincent Poy To: cjclark@home.com Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE passwd issue In-Reply-To: <199910230455.AAA34689@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? Cheers, Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message