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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Wayne M Barnes <wayne@klentaq.com>
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Subject: Re: password length 
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On Tue, 28 Dec 1999 12:20:28 CST, Wayne M Barnes wrote:

>     I just noticed that a couple of my 3.3 (or 3.4RC) systems are
> not recognizing any more than 8 characters of my passwords.

I'll bet you're using DES instead of MD5. :-)

See the following references:

	http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/install.html#AEN634
	http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/security.html#CRYPT

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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