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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.



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