From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 3 7:10: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from kci.kciLink.com (kci.kciLink.com [204.117.82.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0FF737B613 for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 07:10:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from khera@kciLink.com) Received: from onceler.kcilink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [204.117.82.2]) by kci.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39450E8AC; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 10:09:55 -0500 (EST) Received: (from khera@localhost) by onceler.kcilink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA25931; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 10:09:55 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from khera@kci.kcilink.com) From: Vivek Khera MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14527.54723.140062.247669@onceler.kcilink.com> Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 10:09:55 -0500 (EST) To: Gene Harris Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Password Length In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 8) "Bryce Canyon" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "GH" == Gene Harris writes: GH> I just noticed today that my passwords are only being checked to a GH> length of 8 characters. (By this I mean that I only have to type GH> in the first 8 In the man page for BSD/OS they mention a boolean capability "widepasswords" that you can set in login.conf. Does FreeBSD have such a capability? This uses the new extended crypt() functionality and allows for up to 128 character passwords. The man page for FreeBSD's crypt implies that the extended crypt() functionality is there. A quick scan of the FreeBSD sources for login(1) and passwd(1) don't seem to indicate that they use wide passwords. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message