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Hoping that this is not OT.. Hi I want to write a simple perl script to see if my system supports des or md5 as the password encryption scheme..what is the easiest way.. one of course is to look at the /etc/shadow file and then parsing the passwd field, any better way..?? Thx, Arni

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. Is there a way around this that can be used in dovecot, as well as encryption routines for an email front end? (not system users). It's the integration with

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 12:31 PM, Selphie Keller <selphie.keller at gmail.com> wrote: > Ahh i see, just got up to speed on the issue, so seems like the issue is > related to blowfish being faster then sha family hashing for longer length > passwords, or the system's crypt() not understanding $2a$ -style salts, which most glibcs don't. On those, crypt fails immediately due