FreeBSD maximum password length

Teske, Devin Devin.Teske at fisglobal.com
Mon Jun 17 17:52:52 UTC 2013


On Jun 17, 2013, at 10:28 AM, Mark Felder wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:25:54 -0500, Teske, Devin <Devin.Teske at fisglobal.com> wrote:
> 
>> The default in FreeBSD is MD5
> 
> MD5 is no longer the default.
> 
> 
> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=238484

Huzzah!

9.1-RELEASE and higher indeed use sha512 as the new default.

8.4 still using md5 though (and expected to stay that way).

Question…

Is sha512 the highest it goes in our system?
-- 
Devin

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