cvs client sends 8-character passwords.

[richard . campbell]

>Submitter-Id:   net
>Originator:     Richard Campbell
>Organization:
air2web.com
>Confidential:  
no
>Synopsis:      
CVS client sends 8-characters of a password, regardless of password length.
>Severity:      
non-critical
>Priority:      
low
>Category:      
Category: cvs client
>Class:         
sw-bug
>Release:       cvs-1.10
>Environment:
        
System: SunOS vega 5.7 Generic_106541-06 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-250
Architecture: sun4

>Description:
        
I have a cvs server installed on a red hat linux box (Red hat 6.2).
Linux supports user passwords in excess of 8 characters, and my 
password was 12.  I could not log into the cvs server from a Solaris
client (1.10.8), although I could log in from an NT client (1.10.5), 
and a Linux client (1.11).  After reducing my password to 8 characters,
I could login from all clients.
>How-To-Repeat:
        
Install cvs on a linux box as a server, and try to login (pserver) from a 
Solaris box (2.7), with a password of 9 or more characters for the account
on the linux box.
>Fix:
        
Reduce the password on the linux box(cvs server) to 8 characters or less.