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Re: 8 character password limit
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Larry Jones |
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Re: 8 character password limit |
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Fri, 7 Sep 2001 11:30:49 -0400 (EDT) |
Derek R. Price writes:
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> Has anyone ever seen a problem with CVS handling passwords longer than 8
> characters? I found a message in the archives which references a
> problem Larry Jones said he fixed some time ago but which he said only
> occurred on Sun servers and I have definitely encountered this problem
> accessing a 1.10.7 CVS server, I think it was, running on Linux, but
> I never had shell access to the server so I couldn't study the install.
The problem on Sun is that the getpass() library routine only accepts a
maximum of eight characters, even though passwords can be much longer
than that. There's a completely different routine -- getpassphrase() --
that you have to use to get longer passwords. I don't think that has
any relation to the problem you saw.
It's the client that prompts for the password, so there's a problem if
the server supports longer passwords than the client -- the client will
truncate the password to its maximum length.
-Larry Jones
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