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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: > 8Char Login Names
Date: 5 Feb 1996 11:01:58 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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nagy@turtle.apana.org.au (Robert Nagy) writes:
> Is there any way to get longer than 8char log in names for FreeBSD2.1 ?
It is longer (say the system headers), though only 8 chars are being
logged to utmp/wtmp.
> Potentially I may want to create a few email addresses that need to be
> longer than 8chars. I always thought this may have been a limitation of
> UN*X and also FreeBSD1.1.5.1 which I used to run.
RTFM aliases(5) for a better way to do this.
> Also is there any way to convert the master.passwd file from 1.1.5.1 to 2.1
> As the encoding scheme seems to be different.
Hmm, i almost forgot about the 1.1.5.1... fortunately, there are
CD-ROMs:
j@uriah 190% head -1 /usr/src/etc/master.passwd
root::0:0::0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/csh
j@uriah 191% head -1 /cd/filesys/etc/master.passwd
root::0:0::0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/csh
The /cd is FreeBSD 1.1, /usr/src is 2.2-current. Apparently, the file
format has not been changed. What has been changed however is the
password encryption. If you were using DES with 1.1.5.1, you should
also install DES for FreeBSD 2, and should be going. If you were
using the poor default password scrambler in 1.1.5.1, you should
upgrade your passwords. The new default MD5 encryption is way
stronger.
If upgrading is not an option, you could rip out the crypt.c password
scrambler from 1.1.5.1, make it into a separate library, and link this
one to /usr/lib/libcrypt.{a,so.2.0}. You need to recompile init(8) in
case you want to use `insecure' for your console in /etc/ttys, since
init links libcrypt statically. All other programs use the shared
libcrypt.
--
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. ;-)