Ethan, 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.
Indeed, PAM is a potato thing, and as far as I know, everything in /etc/login.defs is rendered obsolete by PAM. Regards, Alex. -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCM d- s:+ a--- C++++ UL++++ P L+++ E W++ N o-- K- w O--- M- V- PS+ PE- Y PGP t+ 5 X- R tv+ b DI--- D+ G e-- h++ r--- y ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 07:18:21PM -0600, Kama Lar wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 04:18:43PM -0700, Kevin wrote: > > > I find my rather upset that by default slink only allows a password length > > > of 7 characters max. Unfortunately I am not sure how to change it, and > > > > [clipped for sake of brevity] > > > > Enable md5 in /etc/pam/passwd, and in /etc/login.defs > > (actaully its /etc/pam.d/passwd but pam is a potato thing) > > there is also a PASS_MAX_LEN which is set to 8 by default, I presume > this has to be increased, (or is it obsolete with PAM??) what is the > maximum password length that MD5 supports? > > -- > Ethan Benson > http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >