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Date:      Mon, 5 Feb 2001 21:37:46 -0800
From:      "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
To:        "Jose Gerardo Amaya Giron" <gerardo@datascan-site.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: password length
Message-ID:  <001101c08ffe$eef6f100$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
In-Reply-To: <2100.192.168.0.2.981397604.squirrel@mail.datascan-site.com>

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You can turn off DES and turn on MD5 passwords.  For compatability
with other UNIX, FreeBSD ignores greater than 8 characters in DES
passwords.

Of course, this may break NIS, etc.  Don't do it unless your
certain you know what your doing.

Ted Mittelstaedt                      tedm@toybox.placo.com
Author of:          The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide
Book website:         http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Jose Gerardo
> Amaya Giron
> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 10:27 AM
> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: password length
> 
> 
> Right now My users passwords only reads the first 8 characters 
> and dont care
> about the rest, how can I fix this situation??
> 
> 
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