AUTH password problem.

[Josep M.]

Hello.

My debian supports 32 bytes in password field , so, I would like know if
is PAM or sasl the problem of this, and if can be modified building a
new package.

Thanks
Josep


El vie, 16-05-2008 a las 16:16 +0200, Dieter Kluenter escribió:
> Hi,
> 
> "Dieter Kluenter" <dieter at dkluenter.de> writes:
> 
> > "Josep M." <websurfer at gamu.navegants.org> writes:
> >
> >> Hello.
> >>
> >> I try the following:
> 
> >> debianet:/home/krasher# cat /etc/default/saslauthd
> >> START=yes
> >> MECHANISMS="pam"
> >> MECH_OPTIONS=""
> >> THREADS=5
> >> OPTIONS="-c -m /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd"
> >
> > There has been a limitation of 8 bit for userpasswords in /etc/passwd
> > on some Linux distributions, the limit should be now 32 bit, probably
> > your distribution still maintains the old limitation.
> 
> Sorry, this should be 8 byte password size.
> 
> -Dieter