From 05004b3a2336623c0b869e98212728623b3dbdc3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: trhodes Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 22:32:59 +0000 Subject: crypt(3) incorrectly documents md5 salt, fixed. PR: 36782 No objections from: ru MFC after: 3 days --- lib/libcrypt/crypt.3 | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'lib/libcrypt') diff --git a/lib/libcrypt/crypt.3 b/lib/libcrypt/crypt.3 index 0613fe1..dc602d9 100644 --- a/lib/libcrypt/crypt.3 +++ b/lib/libcrypt/crypt.3 @@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ then the Modular Crypt Format is used. The .Fa digit represents which algorithm is used in encryption. Following the token is the actual salt to use in the encryption. The length of the salt is limited -to 16 characters--because the length of the returned output is also limited +to 8 characters--because the length of the returned output is also limited (_PASSWORD_LEN). The salt must be terminated with the end of the string (NULL) or a dollar sign. Any characters after the dollar sign are ignored. .Pp -- cgit v1.1