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  3. September 2009

Re: SSH Connection

Jon Paris wrote:
I was trying to use an SSH connection with a 10 character user id and
it refused to connect claiming invalid ID/password.

It turns out (and many of you may know this already) that the user Id
for SSH can only be 8 characters max as stated here:

I suspect that sshd may allow userid's > 8 characters if you set the
environment variable PASE_USRGRP_LIMITED=N in the process where you start
/usr/sbin/sshd


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