Re: password length
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 brevity]
>
> Enable md5 in /etc/pam/passwd, and in /etc/login.defs
(actaully its /etc/pam.d/passwd but pam is a potato thing)
there is also a PASS_MAX_LEN which is set to 8 by default, I presume
this has to be increased, (or is it obsolete with PAM??) what is the
maximum password length that MD5 supports?
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Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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