On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 21:30 +0200, Ingo van Lil wrote: > All characters up to the first '\0' should be printable (function > isprint()), all subsequent characters must be '\0'. Otherwise you should > fall back to hex syntax to be on the safe side. Maybe non-ascii > characters (>127) should be forbidden as well to avoid character > encoding problems.
Another possibility: A colleague of mine suggested we output hex all the time, since the string form is perhaps something we want to hide. That would be somewhat consistent with the output of the IPMI Passwords (which aren't output since they are not retrievable). However, it just seems not right to me ... Al -- Albert Chu [EMAIL PROTECTED] 925-422-5311 Computer Scientist High Performance Systems Division Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-devel
