On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, David O'Brien wrote:
Dear Sir.
Thank you for replying. I see, some problems occur during
a period of time when using a system, so for that, in the past
I was told to use DES encryption due it's mentioned to be a standard,
but today's opinion seems to say the opposit. As I rea
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 12:26:56PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote:
> Last week, I installed a new user and its password seems to be
> definitely encrypted by DES, but today's encrypted passwords seems to
> be MD5 although I did not change anything
I assume this was mentioned in the 4.2 Release notes --
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Tom wrote:
Thanks a lot.
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:>On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, O. Hartmann wrote:
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:>...
:>> In DES I have a password limitation of 8 characters, while FBSD's MD5 allows us
:>> 128 characters. But using NIS/YP limits again passwords and login to be limited
:>> by 8 characters, so I ask
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, O. Hartmann wrote:
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> In DES I have a password limitation of 8 characters, while FBSD's MD5 allows us
> 128 characters. But using NIS/YP limits again passwords and login to be limited
> by 8 characters, so I ask myself what encryption service is the best choice ...
As
