On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Jeroen De Dauw <[email protected]> wrote: > It is annoying yeah, I ended up having to do the recovery 6 times since I > first assumed I was doing something wrong... A fix would be appreciated, no > point in limiting passwords to 16 characters! > > -- > Jeroen De Dauw > * http://blog.bn2vs.com > * http://wiki.bn2vs.com > Don't panic. Don't be evil. 50 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 > 66 65! > -- > > > On 24 May 2010 21:07, Niklas Laxström <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 24 May 2010 21:36, Jeroen De Dauw <[email protected]> wrote: >> > The password recovery of bugzilla seems to be bugged... If I set a >> password >> > to something which has a decent length, aka 20+ chars, and then try to >> > login, I get an error saying it's incorrect. I don't have this issue with >> > shorter passwords, so I'm guessing that at one place the password is >> getting >> > truncated without giving any notification of this. Can someone replicate >> > this issue, or does bugzilla just not like me :) ? >> >> This reminds me the issue I had (and still have) with redhat bugzilla. >> At some point of time I got error "Password is too long", but I could >> login if I typed the first 16 (IRCC) characters of my password. >> Nowadays it just says failed login if I try the full password. I guess >> early versions of bugzilla simply truncated the password to 16 chars >> or so, and the handling of logging in has changed in the new versions. >> This is of course very annoying to users who might not even know what >> is going on. >> >> -Niklas >> >> >> -- >> Niklas Laxström
Just to clarify - you saw this on the password recovery only, not the main password set from user prefs right? -- -george william herbert [email protected] _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
