Nut upsuser - Apr 2022 - Maximum length of password

On Wed, 6 Apr 2022, gene heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday, 6 April 2022 03:39:19 EDT Roger Price wrote:
>> Is there a maximum length for a password in NUT?  Should I specify 15
>> or 31 characters in the grammmar?
> I would be far more concerned with the minimum size, make 'em work to
find it
> if its a worthwhile target.
Finally I set the maximum length for a password to 63 characters, and I added a 
note saying that it is a site responsibility to set minimum sizes, rather than a
matter for the grammar.
> On Wednesday, 6 April 2022 07:28:59 EDT Roger Price wrote:
>> For example a USERNAME value may contain accented letters.
>
> That caveat might be ok but not for american keyboards as we don't know
> how in 99% of the cases, to command one of these keyboards to generate
> that accented character.
It is very easy to type accented letters on an American keyboard.  I'm
typing
this on a very solid 25 year old American keyboard, using Debian's Generic 
105-key US International layout with dead keys.  E.g. USERNAME Napol?on

I'm sure Windows offers the same thing.
Roger

On Wednesday, 6 April 2022 16:26:07 EDT Roger Price
wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Apr 2022, gene heskett wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 6 April 2022 03:39:19 EDT Roger Price wrote:
> >> Is there a maximum length for a password in NUT?  Should I specify
> >> 15
> >> or 31 characters in the grammmar?
> > 
> > I would be far more concerned with the minimum size, make 'em work
to
> > find it if its a worthwhile target.
> 
> Finally I set the maximum length for a password to 63 characters, and I
> added a note saying that it is a site responsibility to set minimum
> sizes, rather than a matter for the grammar.
> 
> > On Wednesday, 6 April 2022 07:28:59 EDT Roger Price wrote:
> >> For example a USERNAME value may contain accented letters.
> > 
> > That caveat might be ok but not for american keyboards as we don't
> > know how in 99% of the cases, to command one of these keyboards to
> > generate that accented character.
> 
> It is very easy to type accented letters on an American keyboard.  I'm
> typing this on a very solid 25 year old American keyboard, using
> Debian's Generic 105-key US International layout with dead keys.  E.g.
> USERNAME Napol?on
> 
I believe that what I'm using here also on a fresh logitek k360. Which 
echo's correctly in the kde5 kmail composer, but its a question mark in 
the reader. I should investigate that diff.
> I'm sure Windows offers the same thing.
> Roger

Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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