crypt(3) only uses the first 8 characters for it's hash.
roniosko is 8 characters. Any extras would be ignored.
I think you'll find trying roniosk would fail.
md5 passwords are a much better option and available
at least from slink (2.1) on (iirc).
I'm not sure about earlier versions.
Roger
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Roger Keays wrote:
Hi all,
I'm not sure if this is common knowledge or not, but I have just noticed
the effects of having the first two letters of your password the same as
the first two in your login name... You can use any extension of your
password!!
e.g., on
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Roger Keays wrote:
I'm not sure if this is common knowledge or not, but I have just noticed
the effects of having the first two letters of your password the same as
the first two in your login name... You can use any extension of your
password!!
e.g., on my Woody
Roger Keays [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm not sure if this is common knowledge or not, but I have just noticed
the effects of having the first two letters of your password the same as
the first two in your login name... You can use any extension of your
password!!
Wrong. You can guess the
Roger Keays wrote:
Hi all,
I'm not sure if this is common knowledge or not, but I have just
noticed the effects of having the first two letters of your password
the same as the first two in your login name... You can use any
extension of your password!!
e.g., on my Woody box I added
Interesting. I'm running Debian 2.2r2 (dist-upgraded to testing). I
selected MD5 for my passwords during installation. However, it seems
that it has defaulted my passwords to 8 characters too:
From /etc/pam.d/passwd (login is the same)
password required pam_unix.so nullok obscure
crypt(3) only uses the first 8 characters for it's hash.
roniosko is 8 characters. Any extras would be ignored.
I think you'll find trying roniosk would fail.
md5 passwords are a much better option and available
at least from slink (2.1) on (iirc).
I'm not sure about earlier versions.
Roger
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Roger Keays wrote:
Hi all,
I'm not sure if this is common knowledge or not, but I have just noticed
the effects of having the first two letters of your password the same as
the first two in your login name... You can use any extension of your
password!!
e.g., on my
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Roger Keays wrote:
I'm not sure if this is common knowledge or not, but I have just noticed
the effects of having the first two letters of your password the same as
the first two in your login name... You can use any extension of your
password!!
e.g., on my Woody
Roger Keays [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm not sure if this is common knowledge or not, but I have just noticed
the effects of having the first two letters of your password the same as
the first two in your login name... You can use any extension of your
password!!
Wrong. You can guess the
Roger Keays wrote:
Hi all,
I'm not sure if this is common knowledge or not, but I have just
noticed the effects of having the first two letters of your password
the same as the first two in your login name... You can use any
extension of your password!!
e.g., on my Woody box I added a
Mike Dresser wrote:
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Roger Keays wrote:
I'm not sure if this is common knowledge or not, but I have just noticed
the effects of having the first two letters of your password the same as
the first two in your login name... You can use any extension of your
Interesting. I'm running Debian 2.2r2 (dist-upgraded to testing). I
selected MD5 for my passwords during installation. However, it seems
that it has defaulted my passwords to 8 characters too:
From /etc/pam.d/passwd (login is the same)
password required pam_unix.so nullok obscure
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