Date: 04 Oct 1999 23:22:22 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: A.Leidinger@WJPServer.CS.Uni-SB.de Cc: Vitaly V Belekhov <bsdl@h2o.riss-telecom.ru>, "Rashid N. Achilov" <shelton@sentry.granch.ru>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Long username/password Message-ID: <xzp3dvq95yp.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: A.Leidinger@WJPServer.CS.Uni-SB.de's message of "Mon, 4 Oct 1999 20:16:48 %2B0200 (CEST)" References: <199910041816.UAA01028@work.net.local>
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A.Leidinger@WJPServer.CS.Uni-SB.de writes: > If there hasn't something changed since I've checked it, it didn't use > long passwords as default (it accepts long passwords as input but only > uses the first eight characters, at least this is my experience with > 3.2). It *does* support 128-character passwords unless you install the DES libraries. The only reason you'd want to do that is compatibility with other Unices (especially when running NIS). > You have to use e.g. vipw(8), clear the password field and insert "$1$". > After this you have to change the (now empty) password. If I remember > correctly it uses SHA1 after this change (but I could be wrong with > this). MD5. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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