Re: Res: RE: [squid-users] problem with BIG passwords

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 23:08:11 +0200

On Tuesday 24 June 2003 19.31, Stephen J. McCracken wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 07:30, Lieven Marchand wrote:
> > "Alex Carlos Braga Ant?o" <alex@fnde.gov.br> writes:
> > > Any news about that problem with passwords above 15
> > > caracteres that squid cannot authenticate ???
> >
> > ncsa authentication ignores everything after the first 8
> > characters, just like the classic unix passwd.
>
> I think I remember (could be wrong, here) that our old NT4 PDC had
> limits of 14 characters in the password. Is it a limit for NTLM?

It is a limit of the LM authentication protocol.

NTLM does not share this issue, but only the wb_ntlm helper really
supports NTLM in case of the helpers shipped with Squid.. the other
helpers still use LM.

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