[Samba] Re: smbpasswd problem on Solaris-10

[Ole Benner]

There is only one entry:

key(20) = "min password length\00"
data(4) = "\05\00\00\00"

Regards
Ole Benner
Netic A/S


Roberto Lizana wrote:
> type  tdbdump /var/lib/samba/account_policy.tdb and show me data of key 
> '* password length'
> 
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> Ole Benner escribió:
>> I have now tried if the problem exists in samba-3.0.24 and it doesn't.
>> The problem is only with samba-3.0.25(a/b).
>>
>> I will fill in a bug report on it.
>>
>> Mvh
>> Ole Benner
>> Netic A/S
>>
>>
>> Ole Benner wrote:
>>  
>>> I have compiled both samba-3.0.25a and samba-3.0.25b and with both I
>>> have problems setting user password longer than 8 chars with smbpasswd.
>>> I get no errors, but if I try to set a password with more than 8 chars
>>> the password will only be generated using the first 8 chars.
>>>
>>> This is on Solaris-10 update 3 on amd64 and I have compiled samba using
>>> Sun Studio 11 compiler suite and no other options to configure than
>>> --prefix=/some/path.
>>>
>>> Solaris-10 comes with samba 3.0.21b preinstalled and if I use smbpasswd
>>> from that installation there is no problems and the smaba-3.0.25(a/b)
>>> version works alright with >8 chars passwd once it is set.
>>>
>>> This looks like some 32/64 bit bug or similar.
>>>
>>>     
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