Re: [Ipmitool-devel] Reg issue with password having 16 bytes [ID: 3184687]

[Duncan I. <dun...@gm...>]

Jim,

I'm sorry, but I don't follow. What? I feel like you're talking about
setting password now, eg. % ipmitool user set password UID PASSWORD;.
I thought the issue is % ipmitool -P veryLongPassword -H myhost some
commands here ; And that's what patch should address. I haven't tried
password from file and via ask-pass, come to think of it, but I have
tested -P parameter.

Please, elaborate your e-mail a bit more. I'm, well, confused.

Thanks,
--Duncan

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Jim Mankovich <jm...@hp...> wrote:
> Duncan,
>
> After I looked at this I came to the realization that I had over simplified
> the 16 vrs 20 byte
> password to lan vrs lanplus, when in fact it is really an IPMI 1.5 vrs IPMI
> 2.0 issue.
> It is also possible to set a password via the /dev/ipmi interface so
> qualification of
> password length using the interface is not sufficient to cover all the
> cases.
>
> I believe doing this correctly will require password length verification
> based on the current
> IPMI version.
>
> This patch will ca
>
> -- Jim Mankovich | jm...@hp... --
>
>
>
> On 4/28/2012 5:41 AM, Duncan Idaho wrote:
>>
>> Jim,
>>
>> attached is proposed solution to constrain password length to 16,
>> resp. 20, bytes when LAN, resp. LAN+, interface is used.
>>
>> Comments are, of course, welcome from anybody.
>>
>> --Duncan