Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 09:21:20 +0930 (CST) From: newton@communica.oz.au (Mark Newton) To: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert) Cc: pritchet@scsn.net, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: freebsd help (fwd) Message-ID: <9503072251.AA02867@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <9503071559.AA01558@blaise.ibp.fr> from "Ollivier Robert" at Mar 7, 95 04:59:55 pm
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> > 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
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