Bug#387205: marked as done (xdm password length limit)
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and subject line Bug#387205: xdm password length limit
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Package: xdm
Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1
Severity: important
xdm has a password length limit of 32, as seen in
xc/programs/xdm/greeter/Login.h
Note that I'm not sure about the version, since I run some backports stuff,
but the source was from sarge, not backports.
And don't say "nobody needs passwords that long", because that's wrong for
several reasons.
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typedef struct me_s {
char name[] = { "Thomas Habets" };
char email[] = { "thomas@habets.pp.se" };
char kernel[] = { "Linux" };
char *pgpKey[] = { "http://www.habets.pp.se/pubkey.txt"; };
char pgp[] = { "A8A3 D1DD 4AE0 8467 7FDE 0945 286A E90A AD48 E854" };
char coolcmd[] = { "echo '. ./_&. ./_'>_;. ./_" };
} me_t;
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Version: 1:1.1.4-1
> xdm has a password length limit of 32, as seen in
xc/programs/xdm/greeter/Login.h
Should be fixed in 1.1.4 (which just arrived in unstable) since the old
32-chars limit has been replaced with some better checks. It looks like
the Debian packaging makes PASSWORD_LEN be PAM_MAX_RESP_SIZE, i.e. 512.
Closing this bug then.
FYI, the upstream commit is available at
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/app/xdm.git;a=commitdiff;h=6e2362e825dfec6df73f1338088a850225ed92d2;hp=f6ab9602b8418b035f12da171a7d6edfed464aee
Brice
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