Hello Ivo, ML> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=59593 To my mind that's not sshd bug - that's DES limits. You'd use md5 passwords instead. I've checked with MD5 - all fine. sshd version OpenSSH_3.5p1 FreeBSD-20030924 freebsd 4.9-release -- Best regards, Sergey