8 character passwds have been the standard since the beginning of UNIX time,
as far as I know.
You can use MD5 passwds if you wish. This is all controlled via PAM
(Pluggable Authentication Modules) these days. PAM isn't easily understood
by the newbie, however.
Check out http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/
ciao,
kw
/* Keith Warno
** Developer & Sys Admin
** http://www.HaggleWare.com/
*/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jose Luis Araujo"
To:
Sent: 10 May 2000, Wednesday 17:42
Subject: [suse-security] passwd question
Hy, having installed my first SUSE system [BTW 6.3] (and against my will)
finding it much better than i expected of a "user-friendly" instalation.
When browsing the new system i found something that i thought i would
never
found in a modern linux setup, the passwords were using only the first 8
caracters of a password, that is using DES, why doesn't it uses MD5 crypt.
I may be wrong, and i hope this isn't the default. It it is, then i
consider
it a bug.
My question then is: how to install a better crypt or how to setup a
better
crypt.
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See you in the battleground
Jose Araujo aka "Forever Young"
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