[Samba] Joining ADS Domain from Solaris9

[Christoph Kaegi]

To everybody who tries do join an ADS Domain from a Samba 3.0.25pre2
server on Solaris 9:

The Solaris9 getpass(3C) takes passwords up to PASS_MAX length,
which is only 8. That means if you try something like

# net ads join -U admin at MY.REALM

and the admin password is more than 8 characters in length,
you'll get "Preauthentication failed".

The solution to this is to use getpassphrase(3C), which according
to the manpage "returns a string of up to 256 characters in length"
but otherwise is identical to getpass(3C).
(line 254 of utils/net_ads.c)

Maybe this could be cared for by the configure scripts?

Thank you, Samba Team, for your sustained good work!

Chris

-- 
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Christoph Kaegi                                           kgc at zhwin.ch
----------------------------------------------------------------------