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. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- .-"".__."``". Anne Carasik, System Administrator .-.--. _...' (/) (/) ``' gator@cacr.caltech.edu (O/ O) \-' ` -="""=. ', Center for Advanced Computing Research ~`~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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