Also 14 character password limit for secstore password
when storing in nvram.

Vào 11:18, T.5, 29 Th1, 2026 <[email protected]> đã viết:

> Hello 9fans,
>
> I'm trying to understand whether there are technical reasons for us
> (9front) having a 27-character limit on auth passwords.
>
> On 9front, this can be traced back to PASSWDLEN defined in authsrv.h. That
> constant was split off from ANAMELEN in commit 3c622887, and /doc/prog4.ms
> mentions that ANAMELEN is a vestige of when 9p used fixed 28-character
> buffers for paths, defined as NAMELEN.
>
> And this is where the trail runs cold. I am unable to find out why
> ANAMELEN exists at all. Key derivation functions should be able to handle
> arbitrary length passwords, so ostensibly PASSWDLEN is not needed in
> principle. Is this just a historical quirk, or am I missing something?
>
> I'm thinking it might be interesting to say something about this at iwp9,
> so any thoughts or discussion here is quite welcome.
>
> Cheers,
> B. Wilson
>
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