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Re: OpenSSH Password Question
From: Gordon Messmer <yinyang () EBURG COM>
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 19:15:15 -0800
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. -- Disraeli was pretty close: actually, there are Lies, Damn lies, Statistics, Benchmarks, and Delivery dates.
Current thread:
- OpenSSH Password Question Erik Tayler (Dec 09)
- Re: OpenSSH Password Question Gordon Messmer (Dec 09)
- Re: OpenSSH Password Question White Vampire (Dec 10)
- Re: OpenSSH Password Question Daniel Jacobowitz (Dec 09)
- Re: OpenSSH Password Question Bill Weiss (Dec 10)
- Re: OpenSSH Password Question Erik Tayler (Dec 10)
- Re: OpenSSH Password Question Markus Friedl (Dec 10)
- Re: OpenSSH Password Question Bluefish (P.Magnusson) (Dec 11)
- Re: OpenSSH Password Question Markus Friedl (Dec 11)
- Re: OpenSSH Password Question Bennett Todd (Dec 12)
- Re: OpenSSH Password Question Bluefish (P.Magnusson) (Dec 12)
- Re: OpenSSH Password Question Bluefish (P.Magnusson) (Dec 11)
- Re: OpenSSH Password Question Gordon Messmer (Dec 09)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: OpenSSH Password Question Vitaly McLain (Dec 10)