the site is available in about 15 languages, including Chinese,
Japanese, Greek ... it doesn't make any sense to restrict to
[A-Z][a-z]. Some users may be hardly using those.

If people lock themeselves out, they can get a reminder emailed (which
will use those characters).


On 12/13/06, Marc Espie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 12:16:30AM +0100, Daniel McBrearty wrote:
> Am migrating from an old system which used Basic Auth, to this plugin.
> As mentioned in a previous post, using
>
> password_type => crypted
>
> means that the old passwords still work. Nice ...
>
> But reading the docs for "crypt" I just noticed that it can screw up
> on unicode wide chars, so it looks like a good idea to migrate away
> from crypt to hashed. The best way to do this would be to make the
> plugin support both ... something like :

I really don't think it's a good idea to allow non-ascii characters
into passwords.

People will screw themselves over: choose a password with an é, change
machines, and realize you don't know how to enter an é from the new
setup.

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