[Dovecot] password encryption

Noel Butler
Sat, 06 Apr 2013 07:57:54 -0000

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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