Re: Problem preseeding wifi password
On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 10:07:41AM -0800, VDRU VDRU wrote:
>Hi.
>
>Using the Debian testing net installer iso. I have a wifi password
>that is 60 chars long that contains underscores. When I preseed it
>with "d-i netcfg/wireless_wpa <password>", the installer spits out an
>error that the password is either too long (>64 chars) or too short
>(<8 chars). Neither is true and if I enter it manually instead of
>preseeding it, there's no problem. I have tried preseeding the
>password with and without quotes around it with no success. The only
>thing that comes to mind is maybe the underscores (or special chars in
>general) are not handled correctly by the installer..? I'm not sure a
>bug report is warranted just yet so I'm hoping to get feedback on the
>above before going that route.
Hmmm, that's odd. I have to ask - does your long password contain
quotes (' or ") or $ symbols? Although the netcfg code here is in C,
it may end up using backend interfaces that might be confused by those
special characters. I have not tested this locally, but that would be
my immediate suspicion based on what you're describing...
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