Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:42:42 +0430 From: takCoder <tak.official@gmail.com> To: Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Eduardo Morras <emorrasg@yahoo.es> Subject: Re: FreeBSD maximum password length Message-ID: <CAPkyVLwCN8%2BCFc%2BUxa2xQL0xnYO=2i9OQxsxN5g5UmeuyoVFOA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAHu1Y70crektN6USx=WoARB0nLYRAjsb2D_ScM17Bmnb_-L82w@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAPkyVLw=m5-3HX7YC-Zqm=OgTLMhNYq4trBSWso8qEmPzqV38Q@mail.gmail.com> <op.wytlieyz34t2sn@tech304.office.supranet.net> <CAPkyVLw7_xJwSMGSkfPdSrxrj46L9rV0DqbK0wuhZPnjq-jsKg@mail.gmail.com> <CALBk6yLTfCGDXkxCL19kfuVQRp5BngR=ZS8kXz3DkJVJUMGWFQ@mail.gmail.com> <1371523096.28354.140661245145265.2BADB3AF@webmail.messagingengine.com> <CAHu1Y70crektN6USx=WoARB0nLYRAjsb2D_ScM17Bmnb_-L82w@mail.gmail.com>
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Thank you all for the points you mentioned around this topic. On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Mark Felder <feld@feld.me> wrote: >There isn't a max password length as far as I'm aware, ... On Jun 17, 2013, at 7:47 AM, Eduardo Morras wrote: > > If I remember well, any password longer than default size is truncated, so passwords > > a) ' AhN12Njufsn8794432kjfvsnkkJHNDSMNDKh844mNJKnhjhu8u8424' > b) 'AhN12Njufsn8794432kj' > > have the same salt hash value and both validate the user. > My test machine is currently an old 8.2 one, but the final machine may be upgraded. on this machine, if i enter a password longer than 128 characters, extra characters will be exactly trimmed. So, the final password for any user with a greater-equal input password string, with same first 128 characters, would be the first 128characters. has this been changed in Freebsd 8.3+ to what you explained, Eduardo, or this is the respected behavior? or i am wrong somewhere? Thank you :) On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 7:12 AM, Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com>wrote: > I know this may seem off-the-wall to some, but I pasted a hashed > password for a user under 9.1 into the /etc/passwd entry for that user > on an 8.3 machine, and auth continues to work properly. That's nice. > > - M > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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