[Samba] smbpasswd and 8 character limit

[Ryan Novosielski]

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I can confirm that Solaris only allows 8 character usernames (just
looked this up last week). As such, your usage of /etc/passwd (or
whatever other PAM backend) is likely the problem.

Eric Diven wrote:
> I'm pretty sure it's Solaris specific, I didn't have problems on my
> CentOS box I've been using as a reference machine.  See this bug in
> bugzilla: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4863
> 
> ~Eric
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-bounces+eric.diven=edsiohio.com at lists.samba.org
> [mailto:samba-bounces+eric.diven=edsiohio.com at lists.samba.org] On Behalf
> Of Gaiseric Vandal
> Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 5:04 PM
> To: Samba
> Subject: [Samba] smbpasswd and 8 character limit
> 
> The smbpasswd on my PDC (Solaris 9, Samba 3.026a) will truncate or
> corrupt passwords over 8 chars.
> 
> The smbpasswd command on the linux clients (Samba 3.024a) is OK.
> Anyone know if this is a samba version issue or something solaris
> specific.
> 
> Thanks
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