We have a situation where we have a linux box connecting to a MSsql 7 database. This works fine for the most part, but we currently are running into a wierd scenaro that I believe to be at the fault of using the sybase drivers to connect to MSsql... we have a user that we need to connect as that has a 32 character password. The database accepts this using query analyzer, but fails through any Perl DBI connection, saying that the 'Connection Failed'. Through trial and error we have found that it will only connect with passwords up to 29 characters in length. Any ideas for a workaround if the password length cannot be shortened?