Re: Qmail-ldap password length

Jose Celestino <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.qmail.ldap
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Words by Berger Stefan [Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 02:02:06PM +0200]:
> 
> Hi all ,
> 
> I'm running qmail-ldap on slackware 12.0 .
> Everything is running fine but now i found out that passwords which have
> more
> then 8 characters are only checked up to eight characters .
> ( tested with SMTP Authentification )
> 

Only the first 8 digits are relevant for crypt (man crypt, search for
"first eight characters").

You can use MD5.

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Jose Celestino | http://japc.uncovering.org/files/japc-pgpkey.asc
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