[OpenAFS] afs long names

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH allbery@ece.cmu.edu
21 Apr 2003 16:01:00 -0400


On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 15:53, matias morawicki wrote:
> Can it be a pam issue?? if I do "su longusername" I get "wrong password", even
> if I'm logged as root.

It could be PAM, or login/su, or even libc or NSS (because getpwnam()
doesn't handle long names, for example).

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