[Web-cyradm] User authentication is ignored!

[Muenz, Michael]

> > Seems like it is only validating the first 8 chars?
> > 
> > I can not authenticate with an arbitray Password and your 
> suggested change
> did
> > not change anything
> > (for me)
> 
> why not using only 8 chars Passwords? *gg
> 
> OK no Fun jet, I have the same Problem! :-(

Thats not a problem, it's just the unix crypt function:

http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?crypt_unix+5

"Only  the first eight characters of the key passed to crypt()"

Use MD5 or write an own crypt function ;-)


Michael