From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 11 23:20:51 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 C1A8937B401 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 23:20:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from web20106.mail.yahoo.com (web20106.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.226.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 53E2F43F3F for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 23:20:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsdneophyte@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20030212072050.58332.qmail@web20106.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [68.66.233.46] by web20106.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 23:20:50 PST Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 23:20:50 -0800 (PST) From: Bsd Neophyte Subject: Re: OpenSSH security hole on FreeBSD? To: BSD baby , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20030211194457.A22618@mail.hitmedia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 --- BSD baby 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