From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 22 15:42:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-27.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1050E37B423 for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 15:42:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BEA9B66BAA; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 15:42:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 15:42:18 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: universe Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wierd! Message-ID: <20010422154218.A71433@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <3AE2F6A7.C7C0ED4C@truemetal.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3AE2F6A7.C7C0ED4C@truemetal.org>; from universe@truemetal.org on Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 05:20:07PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 05:20:07PM +0200, universe wrote: > that's because you're using DES as the encryption algorithm. > therefore your passwords are restricted to 8 characters (you could type > ViewSonik or ViewSoni9, it makes no difference as long as the first 8 > chars are correct). if you choose to use MD5 as the algorithm, it will > allow you passwords up to 256 characters. Actually, MD5 has no length restriction, though you might get a bit sick of typing passwords of length 2^32, say :-) Kris --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk 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 iD8DBQE6415KWry0BWjoQKURAl5NAJ9zeJWbG3kkm4jlzI84MTF+BOpkugCgr00w Aucs8IgHZhZo1Rs48AW9g/k= =Ah5n -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message