[plug] Redhat passwords - max 8 chars!?

Christian christian at amnet.net.au
Thu Sep 14 11:57:35 WST 2000


On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 12:08:16PM +0800, David Griffiths wrote:
 
> Carl this is a limitation of the old style unix password encryption.

Technically it's hashing, not encryption.  The passwords are not stored
on a Unix system at all, either encrypted or in plaintext. :-)



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