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icon4.gif   Error while trying to change password (elogd 2.1.0), posted by Stefan Siegel on Mon Aug 12 11:01:51 2002 
    icon2.gif   Re: Error while trying to change password (elogd 2.1.0), posted by Stefan Ritt on Mon Aug 12 17:04:30 2002 
       icon2.gif   Re: Error while trying to change password (elogd 2.1.0), posted by Stefan Siegel on Wed Aug 14 13:44:12 2002 
Message ID: 105     Entry time: Wed Aug 14 13:44:12 2002     In reply to: 102
Icon: Reply  Author: Stefan Siegel  Author Email: ssiegel@lucent.com 
Category: Bug report  OS:   ELOG Version:  
Subject: Re: Error while trying to change password (elogd 2.1.0) 
> > When logging in with a username and password; then trying to logout or 
> > change password one gets the following message:
> > 
> > Error: Parameter value too big. Please increase VALUE_SIZE and recompile 
> > elogd ; Please use your browser's back button to go back 
> > 
> > (up to now I have not yet tried to recompile - may be it works then)
> 
> That's strange. This error should only occur if someone uses a user name or 
> password with more than 256 characters, which I hope is not the case. Have 
> you tried changing your password etc. in this forum? It also runs 2.1.0 on 
> Linux.
> 
> I made a version under 
> 
> http://midas/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/elog/elogd.c?rev=2.67&content-
> type=text/plain
> 
> which has improved error output for this problem, maybe this helps.

Hi, 

changed the VALUE_SIZE from 256 to 512. That seems to fix the problem.

Regards,

Stefan
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