15 Jan
2005
15 Jan
'05
22:13
Hello,
I am currently configuring a connection between ngircd 0.8.1 and a machine running irc 2.10.3p5. This failed at first because ngircd restricts passwords to 8 characters in length.
I took a quick glance at RFC 1459, but i couldnt find any specification of a maximum password length, so I bumped CLIENT_PASS_LEN to 17 in src/ngircd/defines.h . Is there a particular reason why it is restricted to 8? (Or why it was chosen in the first place?)
Thanks, Florian