From: Kevin Sindhu (Kevin.A.Sindhu@Mail.AC)
Date: Tue Oct 14 2003 - 11:15:39 EDT
Just a quick update on an email Casper Dik just sent. I think this
needs to be in the archive.
Thanks a million Casper.
Kind Regards,
-Kevin
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: Solaris 8 char password limit
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:19:04 +0200
From: Casper Dik <casper@holland.sun.com>
To: Kevin.A.Sindhu@Mail.AC
References: <3F89B3B0.7070100@mail.AC> <3F8B95D0.3090807@mail.AC>
>Other Solution as proposed by Steve Sandau was to use npasswd. -
>http://www.utexas.edu/cc/unix/software/npasswd/
Checking the npasswd documentation one finds:
passwd.MaxPassword
Usage Type Default value
passwd.MaxPassword number 8*
Sets the maximum effective length for passwords. This reflects
a limitation of the standard crypt(3), which encrypts only the
initial 8 characters of the plaintext. On Ultrix and Digital
UNIX (aka OSF/1) with enhanced security, this limit is 16.
It is not an error for a password to be longer than the
maximum, but the password checker can be configured to issue a
warning. See passwd.LengthWarn.
Which clearly indicates that npasswd does not support passwords
over 8 characters (certainly, the length of password which is supported
by npasswd is irrelevant as it is the OS crypt() routine which
decides what works.
Casper
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