Package: openssh-client Version: 1:6.7p1-5+deb8u3 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer,
When one enters a four character passphrase to ssh-keygen it fails and says that the passphase is too short and it needs at minimum four characters. Contrary to the failure message, ssh-keygen accepts only passphrases with at least five characters. $ ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 1024 -f test1 Generating public/private rsa key pair. Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): <<< entered 'test' here, 4 chars Enter same passphrase again: key_save_private: passphrase is too short (minimum four characters) Saving the key failed: test1. $ ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 1024 -f test2 Generating public/private rsa key pair. Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): <<< entered 'test1' here, 5 chars Enter same passphrase again: Your identification has been saved in test2. Your public key has been saved in test2.pub. The key fingerprint is: bd:b9:f8:87:2e:77:d8:88:50:4c:71:11:28:36:98:a6 michael@polaris The key's randomart image is: +---[RSA 1024]----+ | o .o+o | | + + o. | | o . = | | E o. | | .S . | | . o | | . .o= | | o.=.+ | | .=+o | +-----------------+ -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.6 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages openssh-client depends on: ii adduser 3.113+nmu3 ii dpkg 1.17.27 ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u6 ii libedit2 3.1-20140620-2 ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.12.1+dfsg-19+deb8u2 ii libselinux1 2.3-2 ii libssl1.0.0 1.0.1t-1+deb8u5 ii passwd 1:4.2-3+deb8u1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 Versions of packages openssh-client recommends: ii xauth 1:1.0.9-1 Versions of packages openssh-client suggests: pn keychain <none> pn libpam-ssh <none> pn monkeysphere <none> pn ssh-askpass <none> -- no debconf information
