On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 02:26:37PM +0200, Pawel Romanek wrote: > Then I was playing with sshd I had discovered > that it checks only 8 (first) characters > of my password, the remainder can be omitted ;) That's normal for passwords using the standard unix crypt() function (like "aI24pyUVhurNU" in /etc/shadow) and can be avoided by using md5 passwords (like "$1$6E9lY9qv$KsAJ8K7yPlkdQoQurSds/0" in /etc/shadow) or maybe an authentication other than /etc/shadow.
Read the docs in /usr/share/doc/passwd and "man 3 crypt". > Regards > P.R. bye, -christian- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
