From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Mar 17 12:28:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from hex.databits.net (hex.databits.net [207.29.192.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2E09E37B719 for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2001 12:28:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from petef@hex.databits.net) Received: (qmail 91026 invoked by uid 1001); 17 Mar 2001 20:28:33 -0000 Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 15:28:33 -0500 From: Pete Fritchman To: Virtual Bob Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE Subject: Re: lengthen passwd in 3.5-S Message-ID: <20010317152833.D90345@databits.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from hey9811@yahoo.com on Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 03:19:36PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You'll want to change over to MD5 passwords (the ones that start with $1$ and are generally longer). You might want to read: http://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/crypt.html Regards, -pete ++ 17/03/01 15:19 -0600 - Virtual Bob: >How to I enlarge (change) allowable password length in 3.5-S? I did quick >look through /usr/src/usr.bin/passwd.c but couldn't quite figure out where >this limit is hard-coded/defined... > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Pete Fritchman Databits Network Services, Inc. finger petef@databits.net for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message