Re: 7 char passwords in WinVNC

Tristan Richardson ()
Thu, 05 Mar 1998 13:41:29 +0000

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> > It's a bug. It should be limited to eight characters, to remain
> > compatible with the Unix getpassword routines. This bug is fixed in
> > Release 8 of WinVNC and above.
>
> Unix getpass() on most platforms isnt limited to 8, nor are passwords.
>

... but it is on Solaris 2.5:

% man getpass

...

DESCRIPTION
     getpass() reads up to a newline or EOF from the file
     /dev/tty, after prompting on the standard error output with
     the null-terminated string prompt and disabling echoing. A
     pointer is returned to a null-terminated string of at most 8
     characters.
...

Cheers

Tristan

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