[freeside] Passwords over 12 chars

[Rob Charles]

Opps,  sorry my bad I thought you were speaking of regular passwd files,
sorry...




Rob Charles
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----- Original Message -----
From: <troyh at netsignia.net>
To: <ivan-freeside at sisd.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2003 12:10 AM
Subject: Re: [freeside] Passwords over 12 chars


> > 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
> >
>