Re: (ITS#5492)

[hyc@symas.com]

huynh.tuan@comcast.net wrote:
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> I by pass the OS by using JAVA frontend LDAPBrowser v2.8.1, and the symtom appeared to be the same.
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> Used crypt to hash password.

DES-based Unix crypt only checks the first 8 characters. As I said, if you 
want longer passwords, then your current choice of password hash is no good. 
Use some other hash instead. This ITS will be closed.

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