openssh unix dev - Aug 2005 - greater than 8 character passwords on SCO OSR6

I read the exchange regarding > 8 char passwords on Unixware from the
end of June.

Is anything being done to add support for >8 character passwords on SCO
OSR6 (in udk mode)?  I have it working by calling osr5bigcrypt(), instead
of bigcrypt(), in openbsd-compat/xcrypt.c and linking with -lcrypt.
libcrypt has bigcrypt(), but for whatever reason, openssh built with it
fails to authenticate passwords >8 chars in length.

bigcrypt() is not documented as being available in udk mode, and
osr5bigcrypt() is not documented at all, so not sure if this is the
"correct" fix.
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Roger Cornelius        rac at tenzing.org

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Roger Cornelius wrote:
> I read the exchange regarding > 8 char passwords on Unixware from the
> end of June.
> 
> Is anything being done to add support for >8 character passwords on SCO
> OSR6 (in udk mode)?  I have it working by calling osr5bigcrypt(), instead
> of bigcrypt(), in openbsd-compat/xcrypt.c and linking with -lcrypt.
> libcrypt has bigcrypt(), but for whatever reason, openssh built with it
> fails to authenticate passwords >8 chars in length.
It's working fine on UnixWare using the latest snapshot.
Your post prompted me to test on OSR6. Although regression tests
have been pasing on OSR6, it looks like ia_openinfo() is failing.

It looks like I'm going ot have to disable long passwords for OSR6.
> 
> bigcrypt() is not documented as being available in udk mode, and
> osr5bigcrypt() is not documented at all, so not sure if this is the
> "correct" fix.
> 
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