Re: [PATCH applied] Re: Log when writing username/password to TLS buffer fails

Gert Doering <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.openvpn.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

On Tue, Apr 14, 2026 at 12:43:58PM -0400, Selva Nair wrote:
> > I have not tested it - I guess one needs a GUI with "long password"
> support to trigger it :-)
> 
> Not really.. long passwords work via the console even in pre-2.6 ! A
> password longer than about 1700 bytes will trigger it.

Amazing :-) - and indeed, being prodded to start thinking, this
USER_PASS_LEN being set to 4096 must have some sort of effect... - thanks.

gert
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