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Thread: Website login does not allow longer passwords, but reset password does. |
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Former Member
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As a general rule I use, if possible at least sixty-four (64) character passwords on everything, mostly so I can find all the sites out there which stink (e.g. American Express) and block long passwords arbitrarily. When resetting my password on World Community Grid today I saw a helpful note (thanks!) about 100 character passwords being allowed, so of course I decided to use that length:
> openssl rand -base64 75 | tr -d '\n' ; echo The resulting password is something like this (sorry that this is wrapping): cRyZdBEewtd9XgzBLF9J4lmAdlqThnaTYIsfHCmrcDEzRmMAxjoIffUQKlM3UA7HSAU4EhXW0cl185xAkAaiXdqaTivaxN The generated string is nice and long, and the website took it without issue, and that was great. Next I tried to login, and apparently I was not copying/pasting my password correctly, but of course copying/pasting is pretty reliable. I checked the HTML of the password field on the login page (vs. the one on the password reset page) and saw it limits the field input to sixty (60) characters. Changing this (thanks Firefox) to 100 I was then able to paste my 100 character password and successfully login without issue. Takeaway: Please change maxlength="60" to maxlength="100" on the login form to (I presume, but have not checked) match the password reset form. Aaron Burgemeister Identity / Security / Linux Consultant |
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BladeD
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Bump...someone should at least say, okay, we will look into this.
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uplinger
Former World Community Grid Tech Joined: May 23, 2005 Post Count: 3952 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I'm taking a look at the code to see what changes need to be made.
Thanks, -Uplinger |
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uplinger
Former World Community Grid Tech Joined: May 23, 2005 Post Count: 3952 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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We are working on a fix for this and hope to have it in the next release.
Note: for a temporary work around, you should be able to navigate to another page and click the login button in the top left and type in your full password there. Thanks, -Uplinger |
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