Re: OpenSSH Password Question

[Erik Tayler <erik () DIGITALOFFENSE NET>]

Thank you to everyone on the list for taking time to respond. Several minutes
after my posting, one of my co-workers pointed out this stupidity to me. Not a
bug, not a misconfiguration. Again, thanks for the responses everyone, next
time I'll try to actually think why something is happening before asking the
list.

Erik Tayler

p.s. I believe this constitutes the termination of the thread.

Bill Weiss wrote:

> Erik Tayler(erik () DIGITALOFFENSE NET)@Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 05:23:34AM -0600:
> > I decided this might be the most appropriate list to send this to, so
> > here I go.
> > I will start off with one basic question, does sshd
> > [SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_2.3.0p1]
> > permit the use of passwords that are longer than 8 characters? If not,
> > then ignore
> > the rest of this e-mail.
> >
> > For example purposes only, let's say the password to one of my normal
> > user
> > accounts is abc123456789. I can log in with any of the following:
> >
> >     abc12345
> >     abc123456
> >     abc1234567
> >     abc12345678
> >     abc123456789
> >     abc1234567890
> >     abc1234567890A
> >     abc1234567890AB
> >
> > You get the picture. This is either the way the server is supposed to
> > act,
> > a bug, or a terrible misconfiguration on my part. Any help would be
> > greatly
> > appreciated. One thing is for sure, I want the be able to use my
> > password,
> > not a truncated version.
>
> What about the system sshd is running on?  Shadown installed, PAM, etc...