[sudo-users] SUDO does not accept password longer than 8 characters in Trusted Systems

[Liu Wallace]

Hi Jan,

Your perception is correct. Following Todd's suggestion, I ran configure
--with-pam and solved the problem.

Thanks a lot.

Wallace

-----Original Message-----
From: jan kalcic [mailto:jandot at googlemail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, 7 February 2007 1:42 AM
To: Liu Wallace
Cc: sudo-users at sudo.ws
Subject: Re: [sudo-users] SUDO does not accept password longer than 8
characters in Trusted Systems


Liu Wallace wrote:
> Hi Sudo Community,
>
> I am running sudo-1.6.8p12 on HP-UX11.11 and HP-UX 11.23 which are
> configured to run Trusted System. In Trusted System mode, the
encrypted
> password is in /tcb/files/auth/* directories. If the user password is
> not longer than 8 characters,  sudo accepts the password. If the
> password is longer than 8 characters, then sudo does not accept it:
> kwlu1 at chinft1-/home/kwlu1> sudo su -

> Password:
> Sorry, try again.
> Password:
>   
Not really know sudo in depth but I wonder if it could be a PAM-related
configuration issue.

Regards,
Jan

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