From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 7 14:53:23 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA28816 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 7 Mar 1995 14:53:23 -0800 Received: from augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au (daemon@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.28.4]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA28804 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 1995 14:53:11 -0800 Received: by augean (5.61+IDA+MU/4.8.36) id AA02867 for hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 8 Mar 1995 09:21:36 +1030 Message-Id: <9503072251.AA02867@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au> Received: by frenzy (4.1/COMMUNICA1.2-950118) id AA05444 for hackers%FreeBSD.org@augean.oz; Wed, 8 Mar 95 09:21:20 CST From: newton@communica.oz.au (Mark Newton) Subject: Re: freebsd help (fwd) To: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert) Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 09:21:20 +0930 (CST) Cc: pritchet@scsn.net, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9503071559.AA01558@blaise.ibp.fr> from "Ollivier Robert" at Mar 7, 95 04:59:55 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 700 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... One could argue that that's a good thing with password encryption :-) - mark --- Mark Newton Email: newton@communica.oz.au UNIX Consultant Phone: +61-8-373-2523 Communica Systems Consultants Fax: +61-8-373-2527