Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 11:38:33 -0500 From: "Eric F Crist" <ecrist@adtechintegrated.com> To: "'Dag-Erling Smorgrav'" <des@ofug.org> Cc: "'Ryan Thompson'" <ryan@sasknow.com>, "'Bill Moran'" <wmoran@potentialtech.com>, <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Password security Message-ID: <001501c21878$ec7ecbb0$77fe180c@armageddon> In-Reply-To: <xzpbsa6f2ox.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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My bad, had a serious brain fart this morning. ;) Eric F Crist President/Sys Admin AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc http://www.adtechintegrated.com -----Original Message----- From: des@flood.ping.uio.no [mailto:des@flood.ping.uio.no] On Behalf Of Dag-Erling Smorgrav Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 9:25 AM To: Eric F Crist Cc: 'Ryan Thompson'; 'Bill Moran'; freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Password security "Eric F Crist" <ecrist@adtechintegrated.com> writes: > So, have you changed the hash from DES to something different? If not, > you're still dealing with an 8 character limit. Certainly the length at > this point could be considered arbitrary, but only the first 8 > characters count. To repeat what I wrote in my previous mail: "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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