It also depends if you've enabled MD5 passwords. If not, you
can only use up to 8 characters.
-Anne
This one time, 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 ;)
>
> Is it normal situation or my sshd
> is configured incorrectly
> (i use default configuration from package) ?
>
> ssh -V shows:
>
> OpenSSH_3.0.2p1 Debian 1:3.0.2p1-8, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090603f
>
> Regards
> P.R.
>
>
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