[nflug] Password length issue

[Cyber Source]

I was curious as the last time I had an issue with user/password 
lengths, it was because I had a username longer than 8 characters and 
all references in processes, etc., would refer to that user by UID. I 
was thinking you might be encountering something like that.

Rob Dege wrote:
> All of the usernames are shorter than 8 char in length, as stipulated 
> by policy.  However, I was able to resolve the problem by using an 
> older version of the ssod program.  I'm not sure why that worked, or 
> what was broken in the newer version, but until I have time to 
> implement a better solution, this will have to work for now.
>
> -Rob
>
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Cyber Source 
> <peter at thecybersource.com <mailto:peter at thecybersource.com>> wrote:
>
>     I meant "does" it have a problem (not just)
>
>
>     Cyber Source wrote:
>
>         Just for shits and giggles, just it have a problem with user
>         names longer than 8 char?
>
>         Rob Dege wrote:
>
>             Hey everyone,
>
>             I'm using ssod to password sync between a AD server and my
>             RHEL 5.1 box.  Everything was working smoothly until I
>             discovered that it chokes when synchronizing passwords
>             longer than 8 characters in length.  I did some googling,
>             but found nothing relevant other than "ssod does not
>             officially support RHEL 5".
>
>             The last time I had to deal with the 8 character passwd
>             length issue was back on a RedHat 7.3 box, and a pam
>             update fixed that right away.  I'm not quite sure where to
>             start with this one.  Any suggestions is appreciated :)
>
>             -- 
>             -Rob
>
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>             liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve
>             neither liberty nor safety."
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