[BusyBox] Re: login and max password len

[Henrik Grindal Bakken]

Mpourtounis Dimitris <db at wless.gr> writes:

> Hi all, 
> I was wondering if anyone has used login with more than 8
> chars password (in order to be more secure).

I assume you mean "with Busybox"...

In that case, I have (well, if you don't, I have anyway...).  I don't
recall if I had to patch anything, though.  You need to make busybox
support MD5 passwords, and to make that the default.  DES encrypted
passwords (standard UNIX crypt) doesn't support more than 8
characters.

 (That might not have been very helpful, though...)


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