Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 23:20:50 -0800 (PST) From: Bsd Neophyte <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com> To: BSD baby <bsd@hitmedia.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OpenSSH security hole on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20030212072050.58332.qmail@web20106.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030211194457.A22618@mail.hitmedia.com>
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--- BSD baby <bsd@hitmedia.com> wrote: > #2 - It only requires I type the first 8 characters > of my password! (I use 16-character password.) check out this URL: http://sddi.net/FBSDSecCheckList.html it guides you how to change the password type to blowfish that allows for more than 8 character passwords. also remember (i don't recall where i heard this) but longer passwords aren't neceassarily more secure. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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