Re: FreeTDS library 30 character password limitation

2013/11/18 Vipul Sharma <[email protected]>:
> Hi,
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> I tried connecting to sql server using a password whose length is more than
> 30 characters and it is failing. I am using the dbopen() API to connect.
> After searching the freetds dblib code, found that
> ${top_dir}/include/tds.hhas this line in it which is causing the
> problem:
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> *#define TDS_MAX_LOGIN_STR_SZ    30 *
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> The field length is somehow limited to 30 characters and making the value
> to 128 apparently fixes the issue just for now.
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> Just wanted to know,
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> - If this 30 characters limitations is documented somewhere ?
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> - Is it safe to simply increase the value to 128 for now to work around the
> limitation for now..
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> *Note *: I am interested to connect just using the TDS 7.1 version.
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> Any pointers around this would be really appreciated.
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> Thanks in advance ,


As a workaround works if you use a protocol > 5.0. However this
constant is used also to build login packet for former versions. The
safest thing is to change the use in src/dblib/dblib.c

Frediano