On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 16:56:39 -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 16 Nov 2017 at 20:11:18 (+0000), Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> >> On Wed, 15 Nov 2017 19:48:00 +0000, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> >> > Hi folks, >> > >> > My ISP replaced my old modem with the new one. I changed my WiFi >> > Authentication key and the name of the WiFi network. Then I made >> > Network Manager to "forget" my old WiFi. Network Manager finds my new >> > WiFi but I cannot connect to it. >> > >> > When "Authentication Key is required" dialog pops up and the key is >> > entered,j Connect button remains grayed out/disabled. Thus there is >> > no way to get through but pressing Cancel button. >> > >> > I'm running Debian Stretch. >> > >> > Could somebody help. It's quite urgent now. >> >> >> The problem is solved. It was Bob Weber post that led me to solution, >> though the problem was a kind of different. >> >> Here what I mean. Just by looking at my password, as entered into NM, I >> did not find any weird characters or trailing spaces in it. A typo was >> exclued since I copy-pasted it from my password manager storage. I was >> in loss and just for no reason, when in GNOME "Authentication required" >> dialog pressed Backspace once... All at a sudden I get through and >> connected!.. >> >> Then I copied the password I uncessfully tried to use in Network >> Manager and pasted it bellow a password copied from my modem/router (or >> as David rightfully called it "gateway" device). >> >> That was it. The original password was 64 characters and the one in my >> modem was only 63 characters. Aparantly the modem has a limitation on >> the password length, > > The protocol sets the limits, not the router.
I agree. But I've meant quite a different thing. Whoever or whatever sets the limit, if the user makes a mistake and enters into appropriate router field oversized password, it is a responsibility of a good programmer to let the user know that the password is going to be truncated. A user has a right to make a mistake, not have enough knowledge, even to be dumb at the end. A good GUI programmer is expected to oversee such things. Silently truncating an entry IS a silly programming technic.
