Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 09:05:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Bhishan Hemrajani <bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org> To: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net> Cc: rjk191@psu.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: two questions: makecontext, etc; password length Message-ID: <200004081605.e38G5dD18414@cytosine.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.21.0004080448400.3042-100000@blues.jpj.net> from Trevor Johnson at "Apr 8, 2000 04:52:26 am"
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It is 8 characters only because you are using DES encryption. MD5 supports more characters. Read: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/crypt.html It will also explain somewhat how to change to MD5. Be aware that if you change encryption, all you're users will have to change their password! --bhishan > > 2) Why are passwords limited to 8 characters? Whether it be xdm, > > login, or su, only the first 8 characters are processed, and the > > rest of the text can be anything I want, or nothing at all. I was > > under the impression that the maximum length of passwords was 25 > > characters. > > In the FreeBSD 4.0 getpass(3) it says: > > The password may be up to _PASSWORD_LEN (currently 128) characters in > length. Any additional characters and the terminating newline > character are discarded. > > The date on that man page is June 4, 1993. > __ > Trevor Johnson > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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