Hi,

I am Neng Xue currently working in MIT dropin project in Oracle Solaris group as a software developer. Recently we noticed an occasionally happened test failure of python test t_pkinit.py[54] in our build environment. Then I tried to debug into the issue. I noticed that after reading the certs file for test case 54, the pass phrase prompt did not even appear before reporting the test case failure. So I turned on the -DDEBUG option for debug mode. I saw the following error message:

Prompt string, 'Pass phrase for /*****/*******/*****/*****/user-enc.p12', is too long!

The prompt_string length limit is set to 128 characters, in our build environment, the file path length around 100 which makes the total length of prompt_string exceeding the 128 limit. I was wondering is there a particular reason for this limit? Or is there a workaround for this issue? Thanks!

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Neng Xue
Oracle Solaris Software Engineer
Santa Clara, CA, USA