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. _______________________________________________ List: [email protected] Listinfo: http://lists.rawmode.org/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
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