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

[Gerald Carter]

On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Åke Holmlund wrote:

> > 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.

Fixing this now by wrapping calls to getpass() in a sys_getpass() function
used by Samba.  On solaris, we will use getpassphrase() instead.
Testing code now.  Will send a patch to the list in about an hour.





cheers, jerry
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