On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Frank Niedermann wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:35:33 Patrick Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > I have a Debian testing server on my network with OpenSSH running. > >> > If I try to log in as root but with wrong password I get access... > > > tried to duplicate this on a sid box and a sarge box (that hasn't been > > upgraded for awhile). I couldn't duplicate your results. > > I think my results are so strange because the wrong password contains > parts of the right password. As I said, if I try to log in with 'x' as > password I get the same results as you described.
Quick questions: (1) how long is the password?; and (2) is the variation you're trying at the end? some hash techniques limit password length and truncate the string after that point, so if you're changing or appending a character after that point you would get the behavior you describe. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
