From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 7 08:02:55 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA17473 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 7 Mar 1995 08:02:55 -0800 Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA17467 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 1995 08:02:52 -0800 Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.10/jtpda-5.0) with SMTP id QAA26131 ; Tue, 7 Mar 1995 16:59:00 +0100 Received: by blaise.ibp.fr (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA01558; Tue, 7 Mar 95 16:59:55 +0100 From: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert) Message-Id: <9503071559.AA01558@blaise.ibp.fr> Subject: Re: freebsd help (fwd) To: pritchet@scsn.net Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 16:59:55 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Ron Pritchett" at Mar 7, 95 10:03:04 am X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.1.0-Development ctm#429 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23beta2] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 536 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Is there a way to make the username/password longer than 8 characters? I'd > like @ least 12. I'm using 2.0-release.... The 8 chars limit came from DES. If you want to use longer passwords,you must not use the seperate securedist (US version) but only the builtin scheme which use MD5. Beware that when using the MD5 version, you're not compatible any more with the rest of the world... -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD keltia 2.1.0-Development #1: Mon Mar 6 23:55:18 MET 1995