that has nothing do to with computer literate persons or not. a password is by definition (and not without good reason) case sensitive. if those people dont know that by now they should learn it. because its this way everywhere in this world
it starts with the windows logon and ends with some google email account on the www. you are creating a flaw in procedure and end up teaching them the wrong stuff. just my 5 cents On 16 Dez., 10:57, Stephen <[email protected]> wrote: > Unfortunately our customers are not always computer literate, I receive a > lot of calls about incorrect login details, in reality the customer is doing > something like this when the password is all lowercase. > > Password > > > PASSWORD > > PassWord > > Whether the hash is uppercase or lowercase doesn't bother me, I don't > consider it a big enough security flaw to leave this amendment out. > > Also 'Andy > Considered changing your settings in gmail? > > On 15 December 2010 21:38, euromark <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > by the way > > you should NEVER upper oder lowercase the password > > leave it as it is or you lower the security of the the site in general > > and compromise the security of the user passwords. > > thats not how it is done > > > the hash will be lowercase anyway after sha1() > > > On 15 Dez., 21:11, AD7six <[email protected]> wrote: > > > btw, slightly OT but I find it really irritating to register somewhere > > and > > > have my username become ad7six :) > > > > AD > > > Check out the new CakePHP Questions sitehttp://cakeqs.organd help others > > with their CakePHP related questions. > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "CakePHP" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<cake-php%[email protected] > > om>For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en > > -- > Kind Regards > Stephen @ NinjaCoderMonkey > > www.ninjacodermonkey.co.uk Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en
