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Bill O'Hanlon wrote:

A better description is that the GUI takes a longer password than 20 characters for IPMI, and seems to set it successfully, but I can't log in with that long password.

It's possible that the GUI was truncating the PW, but since it's displayed as dots and the box is full, it's hard to see if it's just blocking additional characters.

Recovering the IPMI was painful.

I vaguely remember the ASpeed 2400 on my X10SLM+-F only working with passwords up to 19 characters. Cannot confirm the value, nor did I ever find documentation about that. And that was in the IPMI webGUI, which clearly doesn't validate this, either.

If nobody knows of an IPMI spec that defines this, I'd recommend adding a warning to the GUI and to the manual. If needed, we can catalog experimental results on different motherboards on the forum.

I could have sworn we went around with this problem before. While the issue isn't fixed (and there may be good reasons for this that I don't know), at the time the general concensus was that the WebGUI was doing something nasty(TM) with long passwords or certain characters and needed to be worked out or have the WebGUI not allow those characters to be used.

IIRC the customer that first had this problem resolved the issue by logging into the IPMI controller directly and setting the password instead of using the TrueNAS WebGUI. So that may be a hint.

This knowledge is several years old, so it may be wrong, etc. I'd use this info as a starting point for identifying the issue, but I'd definitely validate what I've written here. ;)

Investigate what are our (iX) password limitations and/or requirements

Note to Dev: Followup with Bill about this ticket

https://github.com/freenas/webui/pull/1258