Re: grub password seems to be off by 1

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Montag, den 13.04.2009, 09:54 -0700 schrieb Scott Spurrier:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a customer issue where the customer is trying to use a 32 
> character password to secure grub.  The grub password does not allow 32 
> characters...  It only allows 31 + null.  Does anyone know why 32 
> characters were chosen to be the maximum for the password option and is 
> there any plans to extend this to more characters in the future?
> 

This code was written long ago, I don't think anyone remembers the
reason.
Grub-legacy won't be changed anymore, so there it'll never change.
For grub2 password support isn't yet implemented so I don't know if
it'll have such a limit.
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Felix Zielcke