From owner-freebsd-security Mon Oct 4 11:46:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite.sentex.ca [199.212.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22F7D154BF; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 11:46:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from simoeon (simeon.sentex.ca [209.112.4.47]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA29874; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 14:46:33 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19991004144542.010443b0@staff.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtpop@staff.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 14:45:42 -0400 To: Kris Kennaway From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: Long username/password Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 11:40 AM 10/4/99 -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: >On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Rashid N. Achilov wrote: > >> FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE. What can I make usernames and passwords longer than 8 >> bytes? > >Don't install the DES libcrypt libraries; DES passwords are 8 characters, >MD5 are (effectively) infinite. Long user names are already supported, I >do believe. Infinite ? I thought they only honoured the first 16 chars in this case ? ---Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Tancsa, tel 01.519.651.3400 Network Administrator, mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message