[horde] authentication

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Nizar Abed <nizar at srcget.com>:

> We have horde-webmail-1.0.1 installed, If a user enters the first 8
> characters from the password, she/he can login.
> If after the 8th character of the password I enter anything, I still
> can login, authentication is handled by imp.
>
> seems like only the first 8 characters of the password are being
> checked!
> Is there anyway to change setting and make imp check for exact match?
> is it normal behavior?

Presumably you're using IMP for auth, which means authentication is  
being done against your IMAP server, and your IMAP server - or really  
your unix system - is what's doing that. Passwords used to have a max  
of 8 characters; if you entered more they're ignored.

-chuck