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  • From: Patrick McCoole <pmccoole AT gmail.com>
  • To: FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [freetds] FreeTDS library 30 character password limitation
  • Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 14:06:34 -0600

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Patrick McCoole





> On Nov 18, 2013, at 12:37 PM, Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2013/11/18 Vipul Sharma <vipsharma.sharma AT gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> I tried connecting to sql server using a password whose length is more than
>> 30 characters and it is failing. I am using the dbopen() API to connect.
>> After searching the freetds dblib code, found that
>> ${top_dir}/include/tds.hhas this line in it which is causing the
>> problem:
>>
>>
>>
>> *#define TDS_MAX_LOGIN_STR_SZ 30 *
>>
>>
>>
>> The field length is somehow limited to 30 characters and making the value
>> to 128 apparently fixes the issue just for now.
>>
>>
>>
>> Just wanted to know,
>>
>> - If this 30 characters limitations is documented somewhere ?
>>
>> - Is it safe to simply increase the value to 128 for now to work around the
>> limitation for now..
>>
>>
>>
>> *Note *: I am interested to connect just using the TDS 7.1 version.
>>
>>
>>
>> Any pointers around this would be really appreciated.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance ,
>
> Just committed patch for both 0.91 and master
>
> Frediano
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