[bug-notifications] [git 0004943]: git-remote-https doesn't accept passwords longer than 8 charakters

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https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4943 
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Reported By:                kaempfer
Assigned To:                bwalton
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Project:                    git
Issue ID:                   4943
Category:                   regular use
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   major
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     feedback
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Date Submitted:             2012-05-15 11:59 CEST
Last Modified:              2012-07-28 03:50 CEST
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Summary:                    git-remote-https doesn't accept passwords longer
than 8 charakters
Description: 
We want to use git with https and ldap authenfication.
I installed CSWgit 1.7.10.2,REV=2012.05.12. (sparc, solaris 10)
It seems, that git-remote-https doesn't work with passwords longer than 8
characters. With 8 characters it works.

Example: password 9 characters
bash-3.2$ git clone https://bellus3/git/myrepo.git
Cloning into 'myrepo'...
Username for 'https://bellus3': 
Password for 'https://kaempfer@bellus3': 
fatal: Authentication failed
bash-3.2$

Example: password 8 characters
bash-3.2$ git clone https://bellus3/git/myrepo.git
Cloning into 'myrepo'...
Username for 'https://bellus3': 
Password for 'https://student@bellus3': 
remote: Counting objects: 9, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (5/5), done.
remote: Total 9 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
Unpacking objects: 100% (9/9), done.
bash-3.2$
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 (0010062) bwalton (administrator) - 2012-07-28 03:50
 https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4943#c10062 
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Thanks for the truss files and the credentials to use during testing.  I've
narrowed this down a bit further.  It seems that interactive prompting does
indeed fail, but if I place the same credentials in ~/.netrc, they work and
the repository is cloned.

I'm still looking for the root of the problem, but I'm now focussing on
curl itself.

Thanks
-Ben