Pass length limit

Rémi Lapeyre remi.lapeyre at lenstra.fr
Tue May 26 13:14:12 CEST 2020



> Le 26 mai 2020 à 13:03, Sándor Iváncsics <ivasan7 at gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> It seems to me that the line length is limited to 4096 chars when I
> try to insert a longer line as a pass it get truncated, however I do
> not find any documentation about this. Is there a workaround or method
> how this can be extended or I have to do manual tricks to store a
> longer password?
> 

That’s a limitation due to the tty interface I think. You can avoid it by using:

pass insert -e your_password_name

but it won’t be hidden when you type it.

> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Sandor



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