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

[Kurt@OpenLDAP.org]

At 04:11 PM 5/19/00 GMT, peter.kohler@netcetera.ch wrote:
>Full_Name: Peter Kohler
>Version: 1.2.10
>OS: Solaris 2.6
>URL: 
>Submission from: (NULL) (193.192.248.111)
>
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>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.

This is a limit of getpass(3) on some platforms.  You can
try adding to include/ac/unistd.h (below the inclusion
of system headers), something like:

#define getpass(p)	getpassphrase(p)

I've committed code to -devel to do this automatically if
getpassphrase() is detected.  I'll try to back port this into
1.2 before the next release.

Kurt