Subject: Re: password lengths...
From: Jeff Thompson (jeff@kinkaid.org)
Date: Fri Oct 06 2000 - 16:46:49 EDT
---- Original Message ----
on 10/6/00 10:16 AM, David R Bosso at dbosso@ltsc.ucsb.edu wrote:
> Is this new in 1.5? I'm running asun-pre39 on RedHat 6.2 with DHX, and
> from my OS9 G4 client, I get an alert saying "You have entered more
> characters than the maximum number allowed" if I type more than 8. Do you
> get this alert also?
>
> -David
>
> --On Friday, October 6, 2000 10:59 AM -0400 Steven Karel
> <karelsf@brandeis.edu> wrote:
>
>> I should know -- my password on my favorite linux desktop is nine
>> characters long. Typing the first 8 in the AppleShare dialog box doesn't
>> work; typing the ninth character does.
>>
>> steven
>>
> On our netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.4 install, I'm having some problems with
> passwords over 8 characters. Basically they don't work. :) On the older
> boxes with the older netatalk installs, passwds > 8 characters work
> fine.
I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure the difference between the boxes that do or don't
work is the typ!
e of password encryption used in the password file. Older boxes use
DES, which only supports 8 characters. Newer ones use MD5, which is more secure, and
supports up to 256 character passwords. With DES, if you have a 9+ character
password, everything after the 8th character gets discarded. When you enter a
password to login, everything after the 8th also gets discarded by pam or whatever
uam you happen to be using.
later
--
-Jeff Thompson
jeff@zaius(.dyndns).org, jeff@kinkaid.org, jeff@artifex.org
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