Hello APR Developers: I am using subversion client on HP-UX which has a dependency on apr, apr-util. The packages available for HP-UX porting and archiving center from
http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Development/Libraries/apr-0.9.18/ has password truncation issue on HP-UX (all versions, 11.11, 11.23, 11,31) on PA-RISC and IA64. I could track the issue to HP-UX getpass() API which truncates the password at 8 characters. Unfortunately, apr configure scripts finds and uses getpass() HP-UX API. To resolve the issue I had to edit .../apr-0.9.18/passwd/apr_getpass.c to manually undefine HAVE_GETPASS and let apr internal getpass() function be used. #if defined(__hpux) || defined(__hpux__) #undef HAVE_GETPASS #endif I checked the apr source tree up to 1.4.2 and the issue is present in all apr versions. The recommended password reading API on HP-UX is getpasswd() defined in libsec. I would like to request apr developers to resolve the apr issue on HP-UX by either of following methods, - On HP-UX, always use apr internal getpass() / apr_getpass(). - On HP-UX, configure should check for getpasswd() available in libsec library. If this issue could be resolved in apr on HP-UX, we don't need users to make source change to apr to be able to use it on HP-UX with password lengths greater than 8 characters. This is a critical issue being faced on HP-UX while using subversion client. Regards -Rajesh
