From: Birl (sbirl@astro.ocis.temple.edu)
Date: Mon Nov 25 2002 - 17:01:31 EST
Hello all:
Another subscriber posted a topic back in January 2002,
"Summary: Longer than 8 character passwords under Solaris."
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Is there anyway to have Solaris accept and interpret more than 8 character
passwords?
The answer is the only way that you can achieve this is to replace the
password command with something that would not use the crypt function to
encrypt the passwords for Solaris. A suggestion was to go to MD5 type
hashes for generating passwords like are supported in npasswd. A few
suggestions also came through to armor access to the servers by allowing
SSH only and not allowing telnet. Needless to say. I was disappointed to
find this answer.
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Should I rely on npasswd or is there another way?
Just looking for an update.
Thanks
Scott Birl Scott.Birl@temple.edu
UNIX Consultant/Systems Administrator Computer Services Temple University
1805 North Broad Street Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19122 United States
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