Claus Guttesen wrote: >>> My samba password is 6 characters long. >> Aah, there is a workaround! :-) >> >> Changed my password to six characters, voila: >> This lead me to >> http://www.hostingforum.ca/637009-samba-smbpasswd-truncates-password-8-chars-solaris-sparc.html. > > I have compiled samba 3.0.24 from source using ./configure settings > found at > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do;jsessionid=c3803fd17c41e83b79ff883b58da?bug_id=6230276 > and copied ./source/bin/smbpasswd to /usr/sfw/bin and is now able to > assign myself a password (my original one) longer than 8 characters.
Glad to see it's all straightened out. It's a shame you need to re-compile samba to workaround the password length. Does anyone know if this is a samba thing or do we intentionally limit it to 8? Haik _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
