Bug 375282 - User password algorithm is set to blowfish & passwords longer than 8 charters not accepted
Summary: User password algorithm is set to blowfish & passwords longer than 8 charters...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 371147
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Product: openSUSE 11.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Installation (show other bugs)
Version: Alpha 3
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Enhancement (vote)
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Assignee: E-mail List
QA Contact: Jiri Srain
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Reported: 2008-03-30 17:31 UTC by Willem Meens
Modified: 2008-03-30 18:57 UTC (History)
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Description Willem Meens 2008-03-30 17:31:44 UTC 
When installing Alpha 3 I discovered the password algorithm has defaulted to blowfish. This in itself is not I problem and I suspect the choice is made due to  the recent MD5 collision issues.

There is one undesired side effect with the new setup: longer passwords (more than 8 chars) are not possible and get truncated? I don't think people will like this and that is why I'm reporting it.

Is this specific to blowfish or something that can be altered?

Cheers,
  Willem

P.s.  Loving the progress with the new installer!!
Comment 1 Willem Meens 2008-03-30 17:37:31 UTC 
Found a related bug submission: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=371934
Comment 2 Jiří Suchomel 2008-03-30 18:33:11 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 371147 ***
Comment 3 Willem Meens 2008-03-30 18:57:57 UTC 
sorry for the dupe.. Had searched in the list of open bugs and missed it.

Cheers,
 Wj