Re: OpenSSH Password Question

[Gordon Messmer <yinyang () EBURG COM>]

On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Erik Tayler wrote:

> 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.

If you want passwords longer than 8 characters, you should be using MD5
crypt(), rather than the default DES crypt().  If you're using Red Hat
Linux, then run "authconfig" as root to enable shadow passwords and MD5
passwords.

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