Quick Question in regards to passwords and user names in general,
Has the max length of User names, Passwords and System objects been
increased in FB3?
With a 31 Char limit and UTF8 some users can be severely limited in their
use of FB unless the limits are increased substantially.
regards
Dalton
On 1 March 2012 11:48, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrian...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 01/03/2012 13:39, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:
> > On 01/03/2012 13:26, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote:
> >> 01.03.2012 17:17, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:
> >>> I understand a problem, but please talk about the solution you're
> >>> proposing. What is the moment(s) a password should be converted, and
> >>> from what to UTF8?
> >> Sorry, but I don't have a solution for this problem. I would say
> that password must be
> >> converted by client library from current session/process/thread locale,
> but...
> >>
> > I don't think it should. You're going to introduce another way to deal
> > with connection parameters.
> >
> > If it's going to happen, it must be completely different and work for
> > all properties. The correct solution is to create a notion of the
> > "system charset" to be used as client charset.
> >
> > Worse, in Windows what should this system charset be in the case of
> > console programs. It's not simple, console programs may be called by
> > GUI's one in background.
> >
> > Also, sure, password must be converted to UTF8 when the user is created
> > or it's password is modified, using the current charset to UTF8.
> >
> > Currently we already have the isc_dpb_utf8_filename, used inclusive for
> > the password. It's the way one should pass it, and I don't think we
> > should insert a hack here.
> >
> >
> Looking again at sources, currently a mix of these two worlds are used,
> which I still affirm I don't like too much, but may be better only if we
> had intl libraries in the client.
>
> So, the password (and all other data) is converted if
> isc_dpb_utf8_filename is not used. This may have bugs, specially in the
> services mode, I'd say.
>
> So if it don't work in 2.5, it must be some of these bugs or that the
> password is not converted before store it on the users database.
>
>
> Adriano
>
>
>
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