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 <niklas.laxstrom(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On 24 May 2010 21:36, Jeroen De Dauw <jeroendedauw(a)gmail.com> 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