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Date:      Wed, 6 Jun 2001 21:57:04 +0300
From:      Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
To:        Axel Scheepers <ascheepe@surf.iae.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Encrypted passwords
Message-ID:  <20010606215704.G1104@ringworld.oblivion.bg>
In-Reply-To: <20010606200723.A73395@surf.iae.nl>; from ascheepe@surf.iae.nl on Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 08:07:23PM %2B0200
References:  <200106061636.XAA02297@bazooka.cs.ait.ac.th> <Pine.BSF.4.30_heb2.09.0106061256090.51404-100000@slis-two.lis.fsu.edu> <20010606200723.A73395@surf.iae.nl>

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On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 08:07:23PM +0200, Axel Scheepers wrote:
> Really weird,
> I made a small mistake the other day which resulted in plaintext passwords in the 
> password database. I ran the db trough perl using the crypt function to generate
> the passwords and everything was ok again ...
> How many characters are in the enc. pw field ? There should be 13.

13 in case of DES, quite a lot more in case of MD5.

G'luck,
Peter

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