From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 11 21:23:21 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E268F37B401 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 21:23:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-67-119-52-61.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [67.119.52.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A0C143FE9 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 21:22:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B072667B88; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 21:22:13 -0800 (PST) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 85473F90; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 21:22:13 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 21:22:13 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: BSD baby Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OpenSSH security hole on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20030212052213.GA31883@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20030211194457.A22618@mail.hitmedia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030211194457.A22618@mail.hitmedia.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 --/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 07:44:57PM -0800, BSD baby wrote: > TWO major security holes: >=20 > #1 - It won't let me turn off passwords=20 > (PasswordAuthentication no) Don't know about this one. > #2 - It only requires I type the first 8 characters > of my password! (I use 16-character password.) That's because you're using DES passwords, which only allow 8 characters. See login.conf(5). Kris --/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+SdoFWry0BWjoQKURAkByAJ92NLjCxrmcTzZlu4fT0NezZmCv/ACbBNfd oj2Kr0LTxmvIXrI+v/tPC2o= =3TuZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message