On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Jeroen De Dauw <jeroendedauw(a)gmail.com> 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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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
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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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