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?? > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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