[freeside] Password lengths

[ivan]

On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 05:09:32PM -0700, rdailey at colusanet.com wrote:
> 
> >Passwords are limited to 8 characters.
> 
> You can fix this by editing svc_acct.pm where the line reads:

This breaks the export of any passwords which are stored encrypted in the
database with standard DES crypt(), for example, passwords imported from a
shadow file.

> 
>    if ( $recref->{_password} =~ /^((\*SUSPENDED\* 
> )?)([^\t\n]{$passwordmin,8})$/ ) {
> 
> change it to
> 
>    if ( $recref->{_password} =~ /^((\*SUSPENDED\* 
> )?)([^\t\n]{$passwordmin,20})$/ ) {
> 
> or something like that.
> 
> Then, edit the .cgi files where the password text box maximum length is 8, 
> change to 20 (or whatever)
> 
> Then, if you use svc_acct.export, edit it at:
> 
>    if ( ( length($password) <= 8 )
> 
> again, to:
> 
>    if ( ( length($password) <= 20 )
> 
> Got it?  I think that's it.  It's been awhile since I did it, and I forgot 
> notes.
> 
> Rick Dailey
> ColusaNET
> <mailto:%2F%2Frdailey at colusanet.com>rdailey at colusanet.com
> 

-- 
meow
_ivan