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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.uoknor.edu!news.nodak.edu!netnews1.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!uw-beaver!uhog.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.dfn.de!news.uni-jena.de!news.HRZ.HAB-Weimar.DE!News.HTWM.De!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: Password security Date: 26 Jan 1996 23:42:22 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4ebosu$ke2@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4e69sl$6ci@complete.org> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:13213 comp.unix.admin:37912 jgoerzen@complete.org (John Goerzen) writes: > First, is it possible to increase the maximum length of login passwords > beyond 8 characters without modifying any sources? If not, which source(s) > do I need to modify in order to achieve that? Nope, you would have to bump UT_NAMESIZE in <utmp.h>, in order to record the names in the utmp and wtmp files. You gotta recompile the world after doing this, and naturally, your existing wtmp file is binary crap after this. Note that <sys/param.h> does specify MAXLOGNAME as 12, i'm not sure where this is used. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)