Maciek Uhlig writes:
>
> In order to fix this I suggest to change getpass(3C) to getpassphrase(3C)
> which accepts max 255 chars while compiling under Solaris. I fixed it in the
> source and it works.
I've checked in a fix for this. (What moron at Sun decided to add a
whole new function instead
Hi,
there is a problem with long (i.e. longer than 8 chars) passwords with
cvs-1.10.8 under Solaris 2.6.
When the cvs password is longer than 8 chars one can't login into cvs.
The reason is getpass(3C) used in login.c. It accepts 8 characters only and
therefore only first 8 chars of the passwor
