Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!rochester!rit!tropix!moscom!ur-valhalla!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!sunybcs!boulder!ncar!husc6!bu-cs!adb From: adb@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Adam Bryant) Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs Subject: Re: Conqer password problems (was: Re: Conquer 4 core dump) Message-ID: <34160@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Date: 8 Aug 89 00:02:37 GMT References: <3448@uokmax.UUCP> <645@kl-cs.UUCP> <1056@aipna.ed.ac.uk> Reply-To: adb@bu-it.bu.edu (Adam Bryant) Followup-To: comp.sources.games.bugs Organization: Boston University Archery Club Lines: 45 In article <1056@aipna.ed.ac.uk> rjc@aipna.ed.ac.uk (Richard Caley) writes: > size of the password limit is rather low, this is causing the >program to run out of room for the password. This is possible in places... but the biggest problem is that the builtin function getpass() has an 8 character limit. [Another reason why I wish to implement my own password routine.] > >There is obviously some problem with the code that this causes a corrupt >password ( maybe the strncpy(passwd,getpass(...),PASSLTH) should have >PASSLTH-1?). I tried some things with the first patch... that might do something to fix it. [But I doubt it. I can't see where it really changed anything.] >Otherwise just use four or five letter passwords. That does seem to avoid many problems. [Also caused me not to be able to notice the problem for months since that is the length of the passwords I used *sigh*] >While we are at it, the size of leader and country names is a little >skimpy too ( 7 characters! ). Upping this to 20 as well might be an idea >then you can be Bobo the Mute ruling over Gaglopolonia. Might be able to do that... but it would not become official until the next release. [I do not want to change the data structure to ruin ongoing campaigns.] >Was the development done with machines of small memory size in mind? The developement on my end was done on a rather unlimited system, but Ed worked on a small computer. [And also, future movement onto PCs is planned. adam -- Adam Bryant || ARPANET: adb@bu-it.bu.edu 40 Chester Street Apt. 9 || BITNET: adb@buenga Allston, MA 02134 || UUCP: ..!harvard!bu-cs!bucsf!adb (617) 353-9249 || CSNET: adb%bucsf@bu-it