[Samba] Fix for smbpasswd Samba 2.2.4 on Solaris only taking 8 character passwords

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Tue Jun 18 10:20:03 GMT 2002


On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 12:28:27AM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> 
> Should we try to use a system getpassphrase() instead of our own
> getpass(), if available?

No, the whole getpassphrase() thing is a hack. getpass()
should cope with arbitrary length strings.

Jeremy.




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