Re: password length

2000-03-16 Thread Ted Cabeen
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alexa nder Hvostov writes: >MD5 as an algorithm supports a theoretically infinitely sized password (or >other string), though of course it becomes less secure as the string's >size increases. That said, I think the maximum password length supported >by glibc (and, th

Re: password length

2000-03-16 Thread Alexander Hvostov
Ethan, MD5 as an algorithm supports a theoretically infinitely sized password (or other string), though of course it becomes less secure as the string's size increases. That said, I think the maximum password length supported by glibc (and, thus, PAM) is 128 bytes long. Indeed, PAM is a potato th

Re: password length

2000-03-16 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 07:18:21PM -0600, Kama Lar wrote: > On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 04:18:43PM -0700, Kevin wrote: > > I find my rather upset that by default slink only allows a password length > > of 7 characters max. Unfortunately I am not sure how to change it, and > > [clipped for sake of bre

Re: password length

2000-03-16 Thread Kama Lar
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 04:18:43PM -0700, Kevin wrote: > I find my rather upset that by default slink only allows a password length > of 7 characters max. Unfortunately I am not sure how to change it, and [clipped for sake of brevity] Enable md5 in /etc/pam/passwd, and in /etc/login.defs Curt

Re: password length

2000-03-15 Thread Alexander Hvostov
Kevin, If you find something along the lines of "MD5_CRYPT_ENAB", turn it on. Regards, Alex. -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCM d- s:+ a--- C UL P L+++ E W++ N o-- K- w O--- M- V- PS+ PE- Y PGP t+ 5 X- R tv+ b DI--- D+ G e-- h++ r--- y --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- On