Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 22:09:19 -0300 From: Fabio Dias <duwde@duwde.com.br> To: Gene Harris <zeus@tetronsoftware.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Password Length Message-ID: <38BF10BF.86D1EA83@duwde.com.br> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003021939150.15588-100000@tetron02.tetronsoftware.com>
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Gene Harris wrote: Hi Gene. > I just noticed today that my passwords are only being checked to a length of 8 > characters. (By this I mean that I only have to type in the first 8 > characters of the password. YIKES!) I have minpasswdlen set to 8 in my > login.conf file for the user profile. I have studied the man chpass, man > passwd and man login.conf pages. Is there a setting someplace that extends > the length of the password? This was very unsettling to discover! Aren't you running crypt+DES ? I bet you are :) Passwords (without crypt+DES) can be up to_PASSWORD_LEN - 1 (NULL) == 127 Indeed, when running crypt+DES, If I'm not wrong, what you've described is true. -- /* Fabio Dias / Duwde <duwde@duwde.com.br> HP & PGP avaible at http://www.duwde.com.br PGP key (2048 Bits / KeyID 0x6A53EC31) FP: BB35 50F2 7F83 655D 6B11 F0A2 F8E2 FF3D */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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