From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 19 6:47:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta04ps.bigpond.com (mta04ps.bigpond.com [144.135.25.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E8B637B405 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 06:47:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from merry ([144.135.25.87]) by mta04ps.bigpond.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id GOLIQK00.5UX for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 00:54:20 +1000 Received: from CPE-144-137-15-93.vic.bigpond.net.au ([144.137.15.93]) by psmam07.mailsvc.email.bigpond.com(MailRouter V3.0g 119/635352); 20 Dec 2001 00:47:27 From: "Scott Aitken" To: Subject: Accepting passwords of greater length than stored Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 01:47:23 +1100 Message-ID: <001001c1889c$142417f0$0a01010a@merry> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-reply-to: <9vq8f0$9n5$1@news1.xs4all.nl> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, Does any know why when SSHing to a FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE box succeeds when you enter a password LONGER than the password on the system? The initial part must match the password, but it doesn't seem to matter if you just keep on typing. I assume it also has nothing to do SSH, as ProFTPd suffers from the safe symptom, but I am unable to test telnet at the moment. Thanks Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message