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Date:      Wed, 6 Jun 2001 15:22:22 -0400 (EDT)
From:      David Miner <david@slis-two.lis.fsu.edu>
To:        Axel Scheepers <ascheepe@surf.iae.nl>
Cc:        <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Encrypted passwords
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.30_heb2.09.0106061521230.53214-100000@slis-two.lis.fsu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010606200723.A73395@surf.iae.nl>

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On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, 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 inthe enc. pw field ? There should be 13.
>
> Hope this helps in a way ..
> Gr,
> Axel
>
Just tried again and looked with vipw.  They are 13 characters long.

David
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