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!
>
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> 66 65!
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> 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
>>
>>
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>> Niklas Laxström

Just to clarify - you saw this on the password recovery only, not the
main password set from user prefs right?



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