FreeTDS Development Group

[carl dotsch <cardosur AT cardosur.com>]

Brian Bruns wrote:

> > I cheched in a small patch with a workaround for this.
> > I bring password limit to 40 characters.
> > You must use 7.0 or 8.0 protocol.
>
> > Simply it use TDS7 protocol with different login packets...
> > Also TDS5 should allow password longer than 30 characters but is a bit 
> > more
> > complex to solve.
>
> TDS 4/5 have a secondary password field and based on the authentication
> scheme (ie kerberos) it forces use of that one instead of the primary
> IIRC.  However I don't know what would trigger it to look there for a > 30
> char normal password.
>
> > > I don't remember this issue coming up before.  There is some
> > > interest in
> > > allowing for tablenames and such >30 characters, but no one
> > > working on the
> > > problem as yet.
> > >
> >
> > It this problem written in issue document ?
>
> This is an old sybase limitation that MS did away with (I think they
> support up to 256 now).  I'm not sure what the issue is though, I don't
> recall anywhere in the code that we artficially limit this...on the server
> side perhaps?
>
> Brian
>
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