Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 11:54:34 -0300 (ART) From: Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar> To: Scott Aitken <scotta@whoever.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Accepting passwords of greater length than stored Message-ID: <20011219115222.G43096-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> In-Reply-To: <001001c1889c$142417f0$0a01010a@merry>
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On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Scott Aitken wrote: > 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. I may be wrong, but I remember that in some favors of unix, DES passwords are truncated to 8 chars. Maybe you are using DES for hashing passwords ans this is the problem. Fer > Thanks > Scott > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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