Hi, On Mon, Jan 31, Steffen Dettmer wrote:
* Frank Hart wrote on Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 16:55 +0100:
Unix, and Linux, only look at the first eight characters of your password. So if your password is 12345678 or 12345678910112, for Linux it's the same.
BTW: Pam offers MD5 encryption for passwords I read somewhere. This should make passwords longer than 8 chars useable. Is anybody useing MD5 for passwords?
I have working pam_unix modules with MD5 support on ftp.suse.com. But, NIS+ does not allow MD5 passwords. With NIS, it can work, but there is no guarantee that it works and that new passwords are really MD5 ones, and not crypt one. And not every program works with MD5 passwords, because the buffers are to small. And beside Linux/*BSD there is no other Unix which really supports it. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@suse.de SuSE GmbH Schanzaeckerstr. 10 90443 Nuernberg Linux is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse, cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background.