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minus-squareAmbiorickx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year agoHow about… an undisclosed character limit? We’ll just keep telling you your password is invalid until you figure out the max length.
minus-squarelisploli@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoLet the users enter as many characters as they want and silently crop the password to a few characters.
minus-squarexycu@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoI’ve run into this where the sign-up form silently truncated the password but the login form didn’t. Took me several password resets to guess the thing was being trimmed to 16 characters.
minus-squareericjmorey@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-21 year agoFun fact, this is a feature of Lemmy: Lemmy has an undisclosed password limit of 60 characters. Lemmy’s signup form will silently truncate passwords longer than 60 characters to 60 characters. Lemmy’s login form will crash when passwords longer than 60 characters are submitted. Someone please submit a PR
minus-squareroofuskit@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoI would give up before I figured that out and find some other service to use.
How about… an undisclosed character limit? We’ll just keep telling you your password is invalid until you figure out the max length.
Let the users enter as many characters as they want and silently crop the password to a few characters.
I’ve run into this where the sign-up form silently truncated the password but the login form didn’t. Took me several password resets to guess the thing was being trimmed to 16 characters.
Fun fact, this is a feature of Lemmy:
Someone please submit a PR
Just move to kbin.
I would give up before I figured that out and find some other service to use.