[Bug 295428] Installer: root password truncates to 32 characters

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=295428

--- Comment #3 from Devin Teske <dteske@FreeBSD.org> ---
On that last note, pressing Ctrl-u during the input of a password in the
dialog, Ctrl-u renders an asterisk, does NOT wipe-out previously-input
characters, and so if you, for example, type:

abc^u123

Then abc123 is returned, then abc123 is set as the root password, and POLA is
then violated in the worst way when the user thinks they can log in with
abc^u123 (again, because the user experience was that the ^u keystroke put up
an asterisk in the box) but what happens instead is that typing abc^u123 at the
login prompt results in passing 123 as the login password. The user is then
astonished that when told the password is incorrect.

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