Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 13:13:32 -0400 (EDT) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: vince@venus.GAIANET.NET (Vincent Poy) Cc: cjclark@home.com, FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE passwd issue Message-ID: <199910231713.NAA37967@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910222326430.5072-100000@venus.GAIANET.NET> from Vincent Poy at "Oct 22, 1999 11:27:20 pm"
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Vincent Poy wrote, > 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? I believe the maximum number of characters you can type in is 128. However, for DES I know only the first 8 characters are significant. From a _really_ quick look at crypt_md5() source, it looks like it uses 16. Is that right? I am sure MD5 uses more. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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