In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alexa nder Hvostov writes: >MD5 as an algorithm supports a theoretically infinitely sized password (or >other string), though of course it becomes less secure as the string's >size increases. That said, I think the maximum password length supported >by glibc (and, thus, PAM) is 128 bytes long.
Are the MD5 passwords affected by the max=8 setting in the pam.d/passwd entry, or does it ignore them? -- Ted Cabeen http://www.pobox.com/~secabeen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check Website or finger for PGP Public Key [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I have taken all knowledge to be my province." -F. Bacon [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Human kind cannot bear very much reality."-T.S.Eliot [EMAIL PROTECTED]
