Problem with long clear-text passwords (ITS#539)

[peter.kohler@netcetera.ch]

Full_Name: Peter Kohler
Version: 1.2.10
OS: Solaris 2.6
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Submission from: (NULL) (193.192.248.111)


ldapadd (and probably the other ldap tools too) fail to authenticate with the -W

option (prompting for bind passwd) if the specified password is clear-text and
longer than 8 characters. Specifying the password on the commandline using
the -w parameter works, however.