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 supp

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 p

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 > >

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
-- On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, 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 > would appreciate any help dealing with this matter. I looked > /etc/login.defs but I don

password length

2000-03-15 Thread Kevin
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 would appreciate any help dealing with this matter. I looked /etc/login.defs but I don't want to mess around with it until I know. -Kevin