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From: conley@eecs.ukans.edu (Dennis R. Conley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: shrinking pw fields?
Date: 25 Oct 1996 03:16:28 GMT
Organization: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of Kansas
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Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <54pbec$g7v@raven.cc.ukans.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: mercury.eecs.ukans.edu

I noticed today that some of the password fields in master.passwd were quite long
( ~35 ) and resembled md5 output. Others were the familiar ol' des-ish type of
length 13. I found it curious that more recently created logins always got the
"short" version, and that I could never change "short" to "long" ( or vice versa ).

So why are there two different types, and what determines which type is used?

This on: 2.1.5-RELEASE, no kerberos, no yp.

Many thanks.
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|Dennis R. Conley Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Kansas|
|conley@eecs.ukans.edu (913)864-7372					 |