Subject: Re: other passwd
From: Claus Atzenbeck (claus.atzenbeck@nikocity.de)
Date: Thu Jun 28 2001 - 11:01:21 EDT
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Seanano wrote:
> 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.
Sorry, this was my mistake. Indeed, I have 8 chars available, but my
Linux password had 9 chars.
> 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.
Hm, sounds good, but I guess the quickest way is to change my Linux
password to <= 8 chars...
Thanks everyone who was helping me!!
Claus
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