Summary: | Forum accepts change to overlong passwords | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Infrastructure | Reporter: | Allan Wegan <allanwegan> |
Component: | Forums | Assignee: | Forum Moderators <forum-mods> |
Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | Normal | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | All | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Allan Wegan
2014-04-11 10:12:22 UTC
All password fields are limited to 32 characters in the HTML which is the same length as the database column, so it's not possible to type in a 40 character password. > All password fields are limited to 32 characters in the HTML which is the
> same length as the database column, so it's not possible to type in a 40
> character password.
And of course i would not use that long passwords for such low-risk sites if i had to actually _type_ it in. I did not try to type it. I pasted it. Thats why i use a password manager - so i do not need to type passwords myself. I just hit the button and let KeePassX paste it in. I did not notice that some stars where missing in the field after pasting. But i knew of arbitrary length restrictions from other sites before. Limiting the enthropy of passwords is nothing new on the internet.
Well, its only a usability bug - so i did not had much hope for a fix anyway...
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