To everybody who tries do join an ADS Domain from a Samba 3.0.25pre2
server on Solaris 9:
The Solaris9 getpass(3C) takes passwords up to PASS_MAX length,
which is only 8. That means if you try something like
# net ads join -U admin@MY.REALM
and the admin password is more than 8 characters in length,
you'll get "Preauthentication failed".
The solution to this is to use getpassphrase(3C), which according
to the manpage "returns a string of up to 256 characters in length"
but otherwise is identical to getpass(3C).
(line 254 of utils/net_ads.c)
Maybe this could be cared for by the configure scripts?
Thank you, Samba Team, for your sustained good work!
Chris
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Christoph Kaegi kgc@zhwin.ch
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