Re: password bug

From: George (greerga@CIRCLEMUD.ORG)
Date: 03/02/98


On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Ondra Koutek wrote:

>The passwords in Circle 3.0 are not working well. I can set implementators
>password to any string and any other user can login as implementator
>without password verification.
>I handled that by reinstalling CIRCLE, but after that implementator
>password is secure and working, but paswords of other players not.
>Can anyone help me?

You're using FreeBSD and MD5 passwords.  Increase the password field length
to 20.

If not, then you do have a problem. :)

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