From owner-freebsd-security Thu Jun 20 1:44:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C207737B40B for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 01:44:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id A8FF05361; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 10:44:33 +0200 (CEST) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: "Eric F Crist" Cc: "'Ryan Thompson'" , "'Bill Moran'" , Subject: Re: Password security References: <001b01c21818$7c748d10$77fe180c@armageddon> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 20 Jun 2002 10:44:32 +0200 In-Reply-To: <001b01c21818$7c748d10$77fe180c@armageddon> Message-ID: Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Eric F Crist" 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