Marcus Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Anyways, to take a stab in the dark:
> pwlen.gt.8 characters goes to StringToKey (instead of Andrew_StringToKey),
> (in src/kauth/client.c).  This calls des_key_sched with 2 parms,
> char temp_key[8] and des_key_schedule schedule.  Somewhere inside
> the depths of des_key_schedule, it is indeed assumed that the
> key schedule can be accessed as integers.  Presumably this is
> what is failing.

> So, key_schedule in stock 1.4.4 is defined this way:
> typedef struct des_ks_struct { des_cblock _; } des_key_schedule[16];
> That is, an array of 16 blocks of 8 characters.  The C compiler will
> indeed only give that character alignment, so a problem is quite possible.
> A relatively simple fix is to instead do this:
> typedef struct des_ks_struct { int _[8/sizeof(int)]; } des_key_schedule[16];
> which will give it exactly the same size but require int alignment, which
> is what is required.  This should compile and work without errors; the
> fieldname itself is never used.

Unfortunately, it looks like this wasn't the problem.  The user is still
having the same problem even with this patch.

-- 
Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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