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Re: SSH



On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 02:26:37PM +0200, Pawel Romanek wrote:
> 
> Hi !!
> 
> Then I was playing with sshd I had discovered
> that it checks only 8 (first) characters
> of my password, the remainder can be omitted ;)
[...] 

Hi.

I suggest you look at your PAM settings (/etc/pam.d/ssh,
/etc/pam.d/passwd,
/etc/pam.d/login).

The relevant lines will probably be:

password   required     pam_unix.so obscure min=6 max=18 md5

where 'min' is the minimal and 'max' the maximal length of a password.

bye

-- 
 Peter Samek
 samek@upc.uniba.sk


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