[ale] Is there a limit on password length or characters for OUTBOUND sftp when receding a "password" prompt?

[leam hall]

On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 8:53 AM, Lightner, Jeffrey <JLightner at dsservices.com
> wrote:

> There may in fact be a password limit on local host that would prevent
> your test from working, but again I am doing the login to a remote host and
> it works when I go there from RHEL7 - just not when I do it from RHEL6 or
> RHEL5.
>
> That means the remote is in fact allowing the password - it is something
> with the local (RHEL6/RHEL5) not sending it properly somehow even though I
> have typed or cut and pasted it exactly the same way each time.   I know
> I'm typing or cut and pasting correctly because I am consistently getting
> the login to work when coming from RHEL7.
>
>
> I tried to "su -" on a CentOS 6 host and it failed with a 32 alphanumeric
password. It worked with a much shorter password. I don't see how ssh could
be the issue there. it sounds like the issue was removed in RHEL 7.
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