Re: usernames

[Steve Borho <steve borho myip org>]

On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 05:12:40PM +0300, Florin Andrei wrote:
> 
> 	What are those MD5 passwords in Red Hat 6.0? They allow long passwords? How
> long? They allow long usernames too? How long?

It uses MD5 to generate the one-way hashes stored in /etc/passwd (or
/etc/shadow) instead of the age old Unix crypt() function.  This allows
passwords to be 255 characters unique, instead of only 8.

It has no effect on usernames, and I have no idea what the default max len
is for those in the first place.

-- 
Steve Borho