Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 01:47:33 +0200 From: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> To: Corey Wheeler <corey@euriscom.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Password Lengths Message-ID: <393D8D95.A1877719@i-clue.de> References: <393819DD.E333D58B@euriscom.com>
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Corey Wheeler wrote: > In FBSD 4.0, I've set the minpasswordlen=10:\ in my login.conf and run > the cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf. I execute the passwd command while being > logged in as myself. If I type in a new password that is shorter than > the minpasswordlen, it warns me that my new password is too short. So, > I enter a password of the correct length and confirm that password. > However, when I log out and log back on, I can enter the first 8 > characters of my password and it accepts it as being valid. Is there > something I am missing here. I simply want to be able to set password > lengths greater than 8 characters. You probably are using DES encrypted passwords. The DES algorithm takes exactly eight bytes from the beginning of the password and encrypts those. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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