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 Napoléon > 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. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list [email protected] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
