From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 9 22:31:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta6.snfc21.pbi.net (mta6.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18B5537B491 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 22:31:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from xor.obsecurity.org ([63.207.60.67]) by mta6.snfc21.pbi.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <0G8J000M136LGK@mta6.snfc21.pbi.net> for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 22:25:34 -0800 (PST) Received: by xor.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D1EBF6739C; Fri, 09 Feb 2001 22:28:18 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 22:28:18 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: Using passphrases... In-reply-to: ; from reel@idemnia.ath.cx on Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 01:25:30AM -0500 To: "reel@sympatico.ca" Cc: FreeBSD Questions Message-id: <20010209222818.A86216@mollari.cthul.hu> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF" Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i References: <20010209204205.B84117@mollari.cthul.hu> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 01:25:30AM -0500, reel@sympatico.ca wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 07:56:49PM -0500, reel@sympatico.ca wrote: > > > I just tried to use passphrase instead of a password on my test accou= nt > > > and it works. Is that function completly safe or it's just a bug? > > > > What do you mean by passphrase? >=20 > Well, instead of entering a single-word password, you can enter a > "multiple words separate by space" password (pass phrase). To login with > telnet... etc. As long as you're using MD5 passwords, it doesn't care what you enter or how much. If you're using DES passwords only the first 8 characters are significant. Kris --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6hN+CWry0BWjoQKURAhqDAJ9K53nvwYzg935LgeDAdfGY7HhYfwCg60fQ JZ9+N/Olh89t2jXrlpoOYNQ= =UNgr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message