[1521] in bugtraq
Re: NIS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ollivier Robert)
Tue Apr 18 16:54:17 1995
From: "Ollivier Robert" <roberto@hsc.fr.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 10:33:57 +0200
In-Reply-To: Andrew Macpherson <A.Macpherson@bnr.co.uk>
"Re: NIS" (Apr 16, 4:02pm)
To: Andrew Macpherson <A.Macpherson@bnr.co.uk>
Cc: bugtraq@fc.net
On Apr 16, 4:02pm, Andrew Macpherson wrote:
> While the password file/map is perused by many programs (eg ls) Getpw*(3)
> returning a longer password string is probably not a problem as the
> password structure contains char *pw_passwd, rather than a fixed string.
> Getpass (in the BSD sources) allows a 128 char pass phrase, unfortunately
The export version of FreeBSD 2.x is bundled with a MD5-based password
scheme which allows for longer passwords to be used.
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