7 char passwords in WinVNC

[Tristan Richardson]

> > It's a bug.  It should be limited to eight characters, to remain
> > compatible with the Unix getpassword routines.  This bug is fixed in
> > Release 8 of WinVNC and above.
> 
> Unix getpass() on most platforms isnt limited to 8, nor are passwords.
> 

... but it is on Solaris 2.5:

% man getpass

...

DESCRIPTION
     getpass() reads up  to  a  newline  or  EOF  from  the  file
     /dev/tty,  after prompting on the standard error output with
     the null-terminated string prompt and disabling echoing.   A
     pointer is returned to a null-terminated string of at most 8
     characters.
...


Cheers

Tristan

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