[Samba] About password length in solaris 8 and samba 2.2.4

[Åke Holmlund]

> On Fri, 31 May 2002, Terja Antola wrote:
> 
> > Probably Solaris' getpass() routine or something we use.  I'll add it to
> > my list of stuff to look at when I can.
> > 
> > 
> > ...
> > Have you found any solution to problem above?
> 
> Haven't had a chance to look at it yet.

Aha, explains why passwords set with smbpasswd gets truncated. getpass()
returns, at most, PASS_MAX bytes (8). getpassphrase(), on the other hand,
returns up to 256 characters.

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