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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.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: 5 Feb 1996 10:15:03 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4f4lb7$48q@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4e69sl$6ci@complete.org> <4ebosu$ke2@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4eoii6$dsl@elbereth.leftbank.com> 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:13753 comp.unix.admin:38338 cos@elbereth.leftbank.com (Ofer Inbar) writes: > Are we referring to usernames, or passwords here? > If both of these people are referring to the same thing, then I'm > missing something... what do passwords have to do with utmp/wtmp? Yup, sorry, i've botched this. Of course, the password length is mostly limited by the underlying crypt(3) implementation. I guess the default MD5 would allow more than the traditional DES version. -- 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. ;-)