Subject: Re: other passwd
From: Seanano (sto9013@ksu.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 28 2001 - 10:18:36 EDT
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Claus Atzenbeck wrote:
> I'm usins netatalk on Linux and on another computer I have MacOS 8.6.
>
> It is working well. Right now I use my Linux user's login to get data
> via netatalk. The problem is that my passwords usually are larger than
> 6 characters, but the login window on MacOS (for my Appletalk server
> volume on Linux) allows max 6 chars for login.
>
> 2 quesstions on that:
>
> 1) Is it possible to enlarge the amount of chars I can type into the
> login screen on MacOS, in order to mount my Linux volumes on Mac?
The macOS Appleshare client (at least the english verion) allows for up to
eight characters and has for some time. Our AppleshareIP box also limits
passwords to eight chars. I don't know if it is possible to change this
without major work.
> 2) How can I tell netatalk that user "a" uses password "secret1" on
> Linux, but uses password "secret2" to log into netatalk volumes from
> Mac?
Since netatalk can use PAM you could use a different authentication method
for it. For example, I'm not sure how stable it is, but the mysql PAM
module ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/pam-mysql/ ) would probably be a
fairly quick and easy way to do it, expecially if you have some mysql/sql
experiance. This is something I have on my list for trying out in the
near future.
Sean
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