From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 23 22:54:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mobil.surnet.ru (mobil.surnet.ru [195.54.2.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 226E814DF6 for ; Sat, 23 Oct 1999 22:54:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ilia@cgilh.chel.su) Received: (from uucgilh@localhost) by mobil.surnet.ru (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with UUCP id LAA26357; Sun, 24 Oct 1999 11:49:52 +0600 (ESS) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cgilh.chel.su (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id LAA01625; Sun, 24 Oct 1999 11:12:00 +0600 Received: from localhost (ilia@localhost) by localhost.cgu.chel.su (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id LAA00434; Sun, 24 Oct 1999 11:12:25 +0600 (ESS) (envelope-from ilia@cgilh.chel.su) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.cgu.chel.su: ilia owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 11:12:22 +0600 (ESS) From: Ilia Chipitsine X-Sender: ilia@localhost.cgu.chel.su To: Vincent Poy Cc: cjclark@home.com, FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE passwd issue In-Reply-To: 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Vincent Poy wrote: > 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? certain programs expect your machine to understand DES, samba is what first comes to mind. other programs ? > > > 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 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBOBKVOORxlWKN2EXhAQFqHAMAkJhFh41u/hwGDx1Md6XndFexXywxCQYP mWYZXrDLJh1cIqd1rp4JwYwa3XfxABaskJCHOG6EU5yAz19PyVuo8+eVPspr35eN Sien1R+oqM2e7zMkdXOFfVqNr3TCBQeO =hjCj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message