Re: Name length password problem

From: Jeremy Elson (jelson@CIRCLEMUD.ORG)
Date: 12/11/97


Jason Fischer writes:
>ObCircle:  Is there a way that the configure script can be modified to
>test for the default method of encryption?  If it finds it's MD5 at least
>warn the user that their password length is likely going to need to be
>munged?

It probably will in the next patchlevel or so.  Of course it would be
better to simply make the password field longer, but that breaks
people's playerfiles.  Of course, if we were using ASCII playerfiles
this wouldn't be a problem.


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