Re: maximum password length

Johnny,

Pegasus uses crypt() method  with DES based algorithm for password 
encryption on UNIX systems. Only first 8 characters of the password are 
significant. If you require to change the password length, salt parameter 
to the crypt() method needs to be changed accordingly.  Source file 
pegasus/src/Pegasus/Security/UserManager/UserFileHandler.cpp.

Venkat




From:   "Hwang, Johnny" <[email protected]>
To:     <[email protected]>
Date:   28/04/2011 00:00
Subject:        maximum password length



I have just read up in the manpage of cimuser that the maximum password 
length is set at 8. Is there any way to increase the limit? I have tried 
changing the limit inside the code for cimuser to 32, but I’m running into 
the 8-character truncation problem on Linux machines.