shj@ultra.UUCP (Steve Jay) (03/02/88)
Thanks to those who responded to my query about long passwords & FTP. It turns out this is a known restriction in pre 4.3 clients, which apparently use the standard C library routine "getpass" to prompt for the password. "getpass" is restricted to 8 characters. FTP was fixed in 4.3, although obviously there are a lot of systems with the problem still out there (latest Ultrix & UTS still have problem.) Bob Bradford of Software Kinetics in Ontario (bradford@skl-crc.arpa) pointed out that the "quote" command in FTP can be used to get around the problem in pre 4.3 systems. Open the connection, then enter "quote user username" and "quote pass password" to the ftp prompt. The only disadvantage is the password is echo'd to the terminal. Thanks again to those who responded. -Steve Steve Jay domain: shj@ultra.com Ultra Network Technologies Internet: ultra!shj@ames.arc.nasa.gov 2140 Bering drive uucp: ...ames!ultra!shj San Jose, CA 95131 408-922-0100