Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2026 01:49:53 +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-V7X3jIhCLn@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 #4 from Devin Teske <dteske@FreeBSD.org> --- Another issue is discovered, in that if you pass a maxletters value of zero (0) then the behavior is undocumented -- the max becomes fieldlen. This behavior is not in the bsddialog man-page that I could find. This behavior would be fine if it were documented somewhere. The effort was to try and see if there was a way to remove a limit. Also tried was negative-one (-1) but that returns an error with invalid option. So it's clear that passwordform must take a limit (which is confusing because when we took the root password using cdialog we -- to the best of my recollection -- never had to deal with a password limit). The very fact that we have to provide a limit is what leads to the sub-par user experience in this situation and not one, but at least 3 POLA violations (silently truncated input; malformed truncation when you hit the limit and backspace; inability to correctly interpret/act-upon meaningful keybindings such as Ctrl-u) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.home | help
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