From: Frederick Leung (fleun@doh.health.nsw.gov.au)
Date: Thu Jul 03 2003 - 20:56:48 EDT
Hello,
thanks very much to Dr. Thomas Blinn and Didier Godefroy.
It worked out ok after I did a 'configure --enable-sia'
during software build.
Frederick.
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>Tru64 UNIX uses the "security integration architecture" or "SIA" to
>connect user applications that need security services such as user
>password validation with the appropriate library routines that are
>used to perform the services (which can vary depending on which of
>the two security models you are using and other factors). If your
>proftpd package has an option to use SIA (instead of one of the
>other security dispatch layers in common use, such as the one for
>Solaris or the one for Linux), then if you build it to use SIA,
>it should just work. However, if it has no SIA option, you would
>have to modify the source to be able to work with SIA and test it
>and so forth..
>
>Tom
>
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>
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>> hi all,
>>
>> I have installed proftpd 1.2.8 on my T64 V5.1A machine
>> with C2 security turned on.
>>
>> Although T64 can accept password longer than 8 chars.,
>> 'proftpd' always returns with incorrect ftp login if the
>> password has more than 8 characters.
>>
>> Has anyone experienced the same problem and is there a simple
>> fix for it? I still want proftpd to rely on the T64's password
>> file, ie not using it own one.
>>
>> Thanks for any help.
>>
>> Fred.
>> fleun@bigfoot.com
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