[freeside] Passwords over 12 chars

[troyh at netsignia.net]

> 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....
>>
>> :)
I am not speaking of a unix password. I am speaking of a export with
sqlradius. If the password is 13 or more then the attrb field is changed
to Crypt-Password.

>
> 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.
>
> --
> Scott Lambert                    KC5MLE                       Unix
> SysAdmin
> lambert at lambertfam.org
>