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Re: Password encryption with md5, ... in libc6



On 20 Jan 1998, Torsten Hilbrich wrote:

> Will these problems has been gone with hamm and libc6?  I would really
> prefer a password system with more than 8 significant characters in my
> passwords.

libc6 supports MD5 passwords (almost) transparently. There may be some
stupid programs that do things to make this transparency not full, but all
I found so far worked with MD5. Btw, libc 5.4.38 also supports md5
passwords.

Greg

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