[freeside] Passwords over 12 chars

[Scott Lambert]

On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 06:42:09PM -0400, Rob Charles wrote:
> Anything after 8 characters does not matter anyways, it's a UNIX thing....
> 
> :)

Only with DES encrypted passwords.  MD5 and Blowfish will encrypt a, for
practical purposes (IIRC, 1024), unlimited length password.  Both those
also require a much wider encrypted password field.

MD5 is the default on FreeBSD and my one Redhat 7.2 box.  Blowfish is the
default on OpenBSD.  

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Scott Lambert                    KC5MLE                       Unix SysAdmin
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