RE: [squid-users] NTLM oddities

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Arnold [mailto:arnoldpj@optushome.com.au]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 7:32 AM
> To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: [squid-users] NTLM oddities
>
>
> Hi,
> This is just a suspicion but is there any limitation the the
> string lengths
> for usernames and passwords used in NTLM? Why I ask is I've
> had several
> wierd instances of users not being able to NTLM authenticate
> and the only
> thing I've noticed is that they seem to have long
> passwords... 12 to 18
> characters. I'm not sure what characters are in them but one
> users asured
> me is is strickly letters and numbers.

I've noticed that too, and there's no such limitation in the
squid code (as in, there are but WAY higher than that)
nor, that I know, in the Microsoft code.

> Another one is continuous loggging of "2002-04-09 15:15:34
> [3467] error
> parsing squid line: mydomain\finocchiaroa" (slightly changed
> to protect
> the innocent) in the cache.log file plus a heap of jibberish
> characters
> that currupt my terminal when I tail the file.

Some terminal-corrupting output might happen if you compile with
-DDEBUG and/or -DEXTENDED_DEBUG AND you start the helpers with
the "-d" command-line switch.

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	/kinkie