Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 04:30:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Lewis <chris@digitalwaffle.net> To: freebsd-i386@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: i386/52392: Password lengths over 8 chracters are ignored Message-ID: <200305181130.h4IBUAVL050858@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR i386/52392; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Chris Lewis <chris@digitalwaffle.net> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Cc: Subject: Re: i386/52392: Password lengths over 8 chracters are ignored Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 12:26:59 +0100 At 11:57 18/05/2003, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: >I think the problem is that adduser uses DES passwords by default even >when you have set MD5 e.g. in login.conf. This has been discussed a few >times before, but I can't remember the reason for this. Try searching >the mailling list archives. Agreed - /usr/sbin/adduser calls the Perl function crypt() which is simply DES... d'oh. Might as well considered this bug closed. Regards, -- Chris Lewis [boff] Encryption is mathematical warfare. Mathematics is the universal language. Encryption is secrecy. Secrecy is a declaration of war.
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