Hello. The bug is in chpasswd command inclosed in debian etch that uses only the 8 first characters, if You change the password with passwd command the problem is solved. When Fabian said about change password with passwd command was ok, and after change another time the password with chpasswd the problem was present another time. Thanks for all answers. Josep > What version of Debian are you using? If you have a recent version, > confirm that you are using md5 passwords by looking at the files > in /etc/pam.d -- common-password should have a line like this: > > password required pam_unix.so nullok obscure md5 > > You could also try to log in as user test with the longer password and > see if that works. It's likely that this is a PAM configuration issue > and not a saslauthd issue at all. > > Good luck,