[Dovecot] password encryption

Noel Butler noel.butler at ausics.net
Sat Apr 6 10:57:54 EEST 2013


On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 23:36 -0700, Jim Pazarena wrote:

> I have just come to the realization that password encryption using the 
> crypt function in linux, ONLY USES THE FIRST 8 CHARS. I have written 
> routines using crypt allowing 16+ chars, and find that anything past 8 
> is ignored. Wow.
> 



this was true in decades of old, but has not been the case for many,
many, years - upgrade your system.


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