From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 29 10:35:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.uniserve.com (mail2.uniserve.com [204.244.156.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD6D937B402 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:35:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca ([204.244.186.218]) by mail2.uniserve.com with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 141C3F-0005AZ-00; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:33:54 -0800 Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:33:51 -0800 (PST) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: "O. Hartmann" Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Password Encryption Problems In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, O. Hartmann wrote: ... > In DES I have a password limitation of 8 characters, while FBSD's MD5 allows us > 128 characters. But using NIS/YP limits again passwords and login to be limited > by 8 characters, so I ask myself what encryption service is the best choice ... As far as NIS goes, there is no password field size limiation. NIS deals with the password files as key-data pairs. The sizes are not important. However, the NIS client must be capable of understanding the password field. > Thanks in advance, > Oliver > > - > MfG > O. Hartmann Tom Uniserve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message