Date: 20 Jun 2002 10:44:32 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: "Eric F Crist" <ecrist@adtechintegrated.com> Cc: "'Ryan Thompson'" <ryan@sasknow.com>, "'Bill Moran'" <wmoran@potentialtech.com>, <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Password security Message-ID: <xzpsn3ififj.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <001b01c21818$7c748d10$77fe180c@armageddon> References: <001b01c21818$7c748d10$77fe180c@armageddon>
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"Eric F Crist" <ecrist@adtechintegrated.com> writes: > What I failed to point out was that, if you're using FreeBSD, which I > assume you as you're posting to this group, the FreeBSD login utility > still only recognizes 8 character passwords, unless you've changed that. Wrong. The 8-character limit was imposed by the traditional DES-based password hashing algorithm, not by login(1). By default, FreeBSD uses an MD5-based hash, and supports passwords of arbitrary length. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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