Crypt Passwords in SQL

[William]

On Wednesday, November 17, 2010 04:24:32 pm Kenneth Marshall wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 04:15:47PM -0500, William wrote:
> > Greetings,
> > 
> >   First, Thanks Alan DeKok.  That was exactly what I needed for
> > 
> > NAS_Showt_Name.
> > 
> >   Second, I just discovered a new issue.  Not sure if this is a radius or
> >   a
> > 
> > MySQL issue.
> > 
> > When I crypt a password (MySQL CRYPT command) the password matches
> > anything and everything that matches the first 8 characters of the
> > password.
> > 
> > Is this a limitation of Radius crypt or is it a Mysql crypt ?  I need 16+
> > character password that match.
> > 
> > Wm
> 
> Crypt has an 8 character limit in its specification. Some screwy
> systems play tricks like using the first 7 chars + the last char
> of a string longer than 8 chars (MacOS) instead of just the first
> 8, but it is still eight chars. You will need to use another
> encoding system for more characters.
> 

What attribute would I use instead of Crypt-Password ?  I tried MD5-Password 
and a couple of others, but I can find no documentation on anything other than 
User-Password, Crypt-Password, ClearText-Password, and CHAP-Password.  

Wm