Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 16:26:21 -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.4.05.9910231625360.5072-100000@venus.GAIANET.NET> In-Reply-To: <199910231713.NAA37967@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Crist J. Clark wrote: > 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. Hmmm, I think MD5 does use more except is there a reason to not install DES at all? 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
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