Login only checks the first 8 characters of user passwords
Issue
- SFTP only checks the first 8 chracters of users passwords
- why are only the first eight characters of my password checked to login?
- It is enough to specify correctly the first characters of a password, the rest is completely disregarded
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
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