Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 20:16:48 +0200 (CEST) From: A.Leidinger@WJPServer.CS.Uni-SB.de To: Vitaly V Belekhov <bsdl@h2o.riss-telecom.ru> Cc: "Rashid N. Achilov" <shelton@sentry.granch.ru>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Long username/password Message-ID: <199910041816.UAA01028@work.net.local> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910041218090.89947-100000@h2o.riss-telecom.ru>
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On 4 Okt, Vitaly V Belekhov wrote:
>> FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE. What can I make usernames and passwords longer than 8
>> bytes?
>
> 3.3 already has support for long passwords and upto 16 characters long
> usernames.
If there hasn't something changed since I've checked it, it didn't use
long passwords as default (it accepts long passwords as input but only
uses the first eight characters, at least this is my experience with
3.2).
You have to use e.g. vipw(8), clear the password field and insert "$1$".
After this you have to change the (now empty) password. If I remember
correctly it uses SHA1 after this change (but I could be wrong with
this).
Bye,
Alexander.
P.S.: I did *not* found this information in a man-page (I've checked
passwd(5), passwd(1) and security(7)), so if there is a man-page
(or something else) which gives a better explanation please drop me a
note.
--
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