Subject: Re: other passwd
From: Steven Karel (karelsf@brandeis.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 28 2001 - 11:22:51 EDT
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Claus Atzenbeck wrote:
> 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...
>
> Hm, sounds good, but I guess the quickest way is to change my Linux
> password to <= 8 chars...
That should not be necessary. Recent versions of the Appleshare client
(at least 3.8.6, quite possibly older versions as well)
allow more than 8 characters in a password; my password is 9 characters
and it happily works with recent versions of netatalk (--with-pam and
using Redhat's default setup)
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