Re: how to handle long password in HP_IA64

Volker Birk wrote:

jiankun@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
It seems crypt() in HP_IA64(Unix) can only encrypt 8 characters long
password, are there any ways to make it encrypt using in MD5 rather
than DES as the GNU crypt() can switch between the two algrorithms?


I thot IA64 was a hardware architecture - I guess HP have label engineered
HPUX11.

You could convert your system to trusted HPUX - but then again you could
also chew your own arm off if you were determined enough.

You could use PAM.

HPUX *does* use PAM - its just that the pam libs it ships with aren't the
most esoteric. You can build new PAM modules on HPUX - but don't expect
much support from HP if they break (i.e. don't run them on your console).

C.
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