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If we want to be pluggable, simply delete contents of
/usr/local/etc/inc/plugins.inc.d/ and be done with it.

(cherry picked from commit bdd1be39)

(cherry picked from commit 679dd0b8)

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(cherry picked from commit 1678cc93)

align max username length, ref https://github.com/opnsense/src/blob/4036f873755a3ceeb73c9292065c3530ebfd08e0/sys/sys/param.h#L103

(cherry picked from commit 0829a34c)

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We import those users with a random password.  We can always let
the admin define another one and use it... And provide a way to
set a random password back in case that is required again.

PR: https://github.com/opnsense/core/issues/1351

(cherry picked from commit 32f78562)
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PR: https://github.com/opnsense/core/issues/1359

(cherry picked from commit fc3fcf8a)
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make the ipv4 subnet matching code work like the ipv6 code, fixes bug in subnet matching on tun interfaces

(cherry picked from commit 07d2354a)
(cherry picked from commit b3bad8d2)

PR: https://github.com/opnsense/core/issues/1393

(cherry picked from commit 212fd9aa)
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PR: https://github.com/opnsense/core/issues/1377

(cherry picked from commit 85c00a53)
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(cherry picked from commit 81387849)

PR: https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=4477.0
(cherry picked from commit 714bd18c)

(cherry picked from commit 46e132f8)
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(cherry picked from commit 70c502ba)

Bring back parts of f9e71141 in order to do an autoremove on
minor operations.  We still don't want the cleanup, but at
least since we have migrated to the vital flag we can be
sure that our GUI is not being purged.

(cherry picked from commit 75048a5a)

(cherry picked from commit a0689d4f)

PR: https://github.com/opnsense/core/pull/1388

(cherry picked from commit ba90a39f)

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openvpn export, advancedoptions shouldn't be escaped https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=4427.msg16748#msg16748

(cherry picked from commit 012d0b90)

(cherry picked from commit d4cf6d17)