Web interface silently fails with passwords > 40 characters in length (gosa bug 1168)
The GOsa web interface does not accept usernames or passwords over 40 characters in length. Because the text fields have a maxlength="40", the data is silently truncated when it is sent to the scripts.
There's a growing faction that prefers use of long pass phrases in lieu of complex and convoluted passwords, and this silent failure tripped me up for a good few hours.
Passwords should have no built in limit, or it should be something that easily encompasses all reasonable use cases (say, 10k characters)
(from redmine: issue id 1031, created on 2012-06-09, closed on 2012-08-08)
- Changesets:
- Revision 27ab44e4 by Benoit MORTIER on 2012-06-11T16:52:18.000Z:
Fixes: #1031 Web interface silently fails with passwords > 40 characters in length (gosa bug 1168)
- Revision c83c25fd by Benoit MORTIER on 2012-08-02T09:28:55.000Z:
Fixes: #1031 Web interface silently fails with passwords > 40 characters in length (gosa bug 1168)
- Revision 78a77cff by Benoit MORTIER on 2012-08-08T16:47:21.000Z:
Revert Fixes: #1031 Web interface silently fails with passwords > 40 characters in length (gosa bug 1168)
- Revision 63e02730 by Benoit MORTIER on 2012-08-08T16:54:20.000Z:
Revert Fixes: #1031 Web interface silently fails with passwords > 40 characters in length (gosa bug 1168)
- Revision 19b3feb4 by Benoit MORTIER on 2012-08-10T09:45:02.000Z:
Fixes: #1031 Web interface silently fails with passwords > 40 characters in length (gosa bug 1168)
- Revision 913b1a73 by Benoit MORTIER on 2012-08-10T09:47:43.000Z:
Fixes: #1031 Web interface silently fails with passwords > 40 characters in length (gosa bug 1168)