Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 02:47:02 +0200 From: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> To: Corey Wheeler <corey@euriscom.com> Cc: Christoph Sold <so@server.ms-agentur.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Password Lengths Message-ID: <393D9B86.27AEBE99@i-clue.de> References: <393819DD.E333D58B@euriscom.com> <393D8D95.A1877719@i-clue.de> <393D985F.C9D50933@euriscom.com>
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Corey Wheeler wrote: > Christoph Sold wrote: > > > Corey Wheeler wrote: > > > > > [snip] 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. > > Is there anyway to switch from DES to MD4(5) passwords easily and without > breaking anything else? Yes. Unfortunately, I cannot remember the exact procedure; IIRC it has to do something with libscrypt.so and libdescrypt.so. Search the mailing list archives at http://www.freebsd.org/mail for the answer, as thsi topic has been discussed before. 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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