A terminal showing an SSH login where a very long string of asterisks is accepted as the password

WarningAlerts9 Nov 2026 · 4 min read

“sshole”: any long password logs in to some Alpine and musl SSH servers

On musl-based systems such as Alpine Linux, OpenSSH without PAM could accept any password longer than 256 characters for accounts that have no password set. Update OpenSSH to 10.6p2 (or Alpine’s fixed package) or turn…

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