Thanks for your help all. it looks like CRYPT was the problem. I've changed passwords over to SSHA and everything works as designed. 

-Aaron


From: Elías Halldór Ágústsson <elias@hi.is>
Date: April 26, 2010 6:18:45 PM MDT
To: "389-users@lists.fedoraproject.org" <389-users@lists.fedoraproject.org>
Subject: Re: [389-users] Entire password not checked
Reply-To: General discussion list for the 389 Directory server project. <389-users@lists.fedoraproject.org>


Aaron Mills skrifaði:
However, whenever users authenticate via LDAP the server appears to check only the first 8 characters of their passwords.

You're probably using the CRYPT password method. Other, newer and safer
methods, such as SSHA, can store much longer passwords.



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Aaron Mills
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Return Path, Inc.
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