Re: Name length password problem

From: George (greerga@CIRCLEMUD.ORG)
Date: 12/11/97


On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Quinthius wrote:

>is:  anyony with a character name with greater than 5 letters, can login
>NO MATTER WHAT PASSWORD they use. i made a character "Quinthius", and i
[...]
>could be? My system is: FreeBSD 2.2.5, 32M RAM this is circlemud30 beta pl
>12 it seems that anyone with a name of over 5 chars (or 6, i forget
>which), seem to have this problem.  -Quinthius

This was discussed before and I believe it was a FreeBSD library bug.  Turn
off MD5 (I think) and use the standard crypt.  If you want more details,
try the mailing list archives.

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http://www.van.ml.org/~greerga | is not thus handicapped. -- Elbert Hubbard


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