<pedrocsort-e@yahoo.com> wrote on 16.10.2006 14:56:37:

> Hi,
>
> I do not know what version of SuSE you use.
> But since 9.2 I have systems running with blowfish
> encryption and the root passwd on my systems is always
> 25 chars.
> And I had no problem so far.
>
> Regards,
> Pedro
>

It's really strange, i've checked :

 /etc/security/pam_pwcheck.conf
password:       minlen=12 maxlen=20 cracklib blowfish nullok



cat /etc/default/passwd :
# This file contains some information for
# the passwd (1) command and other tools
# creating or modifying passwords.

# Define default crypt hash
# CRYPT={des,md5,blowfish}
CRYPT=blowfish

In /etc/shadow i am not seeing the '$2a$10$' for users created lately. I added users manually without warnings or error messages, but how can one be sure that the password hasn't being truncated ? How do I know, besides the "magic '$2a$10$'", the encryption method is blowfish ?

This is SuSE 10.1


Miguel Albuquerque
Network Administrator
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