Re: pserver login fails on 9 char passwords

[Brian Murphy]

Mäkeläinen Juha wrote:

> Resending a lost bug report:
>
> -----Original-----
> Sender: Mäkeläinen Juha 
> Sent: 15 Jan 2004 14:04
> Reciever: 'bug-cvs@gnu.org'
> Subject: pserver login fails on 9 char passwords
>
>
> This problem was found when using cvs-1.11.11 server on HP-UX and wincvs client. 
>
> If user password is 9 chars long, the crypted password from client is 13 
> characters but password got from HP-UX secure password system is 24 characters. 
> The server.c module can not handle that.
>
> Login fails and wincvs client says:
>
> cvs -d :pserver:u123456@our-host.fi:/cvs/fdits login 
> Logging in to :pserver:u123456@our-host.fi:2401:/cvs/fdits
> cvs [login aborted]: authorization failed: server our-host.fi rejected access 
> to /cvs/fdits for user u123456
>
> Server (HP-UX B.11.11 U 9000/800) syslog.log message:
>
> Jan 13 09:54:54 our-host syslog: login failure (for /cvs/fdits) Jan 13 09:56:16 
> our-host syslog: password mismatch for u543251: F0sPYT3vo0Gmc vs. 
> F0sPYT3vo0GmcT.Z51tttO6Q
>
>
> I have used pre-compiled versions like cvs-1.11.8 and also compiled my own 
> cvs-1.11.11 using these options:
>
> CFLAGS="-g +DAportable -DLOG_AUTHPRIV" ./configure \
>                 --without-gssapi --enable-server-flow-control
>
> (In this system HAVE_GETSPNAM is defined.)
>
>
>  
Have you tried using the PAM in the 1.12 versions?

/Brian