Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2026 01:41:33 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 295428] Installer: root password truncates to 32 characters Message-ID: <bug-295428-8135-gF7DjoskxA@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> In-Reply-To: <bug-295428-8135@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=295428 --- Comment #2 from Devin Teske <dteske@FreeBSD.org> --- My approach in refactoring the password form dialog is to: 1. Fix detection of cursor position in-relation to maxletters tracking 2. when maxletters is reached (irrespective of --insecure) put up an indicator that max has been reached Problem is that we will have to implement the latter (point 2 above) as an option that is passed-in so that we can maintain i18n capabilities. Put simply, we shouldn't assume the display is English because we ultimately want to support making these dialogs i18n-ready. I propose: `--limit-label label` that will do these two things: 1. Add height to the window, inserting a blank line between the form box and the button region 2. When the limit is reached, render the --limit-label label below the form box 3. If backspace is pressed taking the input below maxletters then erase the --limit-label label This would allow passing in bsdinstall the option --limit-label "limit reached" to indicate to the user that additional characters are not registering, wherein they can then decide to recover by deleting characters and choose a different input. ASIDE: yet another problem was just discovered, on the back of the above comment, it is common for people that know the Ctrl-u keybinding to use it to wipe-out the input. This keybinding is not adhered to and it creates a system that cannot be logged-into. Which is to say quite simply, if Ctrl-u is taken as input, you cannot log into a system that has such a password because pressing Ctrl-u while typing your password at the login prompt will wipe-out previous input. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.home | help
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