On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 05:44:13PM +0100, Edgar Kogler wrote:
> I'm running a debian wheezy server with ltsp, and found that users on our
> school Network with passwords longer than 8 characters or so cannot log in
> on the terminals.

If you ssh to the wheezy ltsp server, does it have the same behavior?


> Our school-network is a mixed network with a SuSe-SAMBA-Server with
> WIN-clients in our Computer-rooms, the LTSP Server is extra.

> I use pam authentication on the LTSP-Server for the login on the terminals.
> Is there a way to log on using our SAMBA-Server ?

What pam module do you use to authenticate on the LTSP server? There should be
a pam module to hook into the samba authentication (libpam-smbpass?), but I
have not tried it myself.


> Is my observation correct with the password-length ?

Over a decade ago, there were limitations in the passwd or shadow
implementation with that caused such a problem, but my memory is pretty vague
on this now, and I'd really be surprised to see it in wheezy...


live well,
  vagrant

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