Hello, fellas:
I registered an account on the forums earlier, and found I could not login to the main tasvideos site. To my surprise, I also found the main site only lets me enter a password up to a certain length, meaning I could login with my old account on the forums, but not the main site. Since this new account has a shorter password, I can login on both the main site and the forums.
I thought you'd like to know I found it odd to have this behaviour, since I expected there to not be a limit on passwords with the main site, seeing as there isn't a limit with the forums, as far as I can tell.
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How long is this password?
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Joined: 3/9/2004
Posts: 4588
Location: In his lab studying psychology to find new ways to torture TASers and forumers
qiskudufo wrote:
Nach wrote:
How long is this password?
Nice try ;)
Not sure what you think is being attempted.
qiskudufo wrote:
Seriously though, it's 40 digits.
Okay, I'll see if we have any limitations below 40.
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When I last changed my password on the forum, I thought I was pasting in 64 characters, but the password input only accepted the first 32. The forum login page similarly took only the first 32 characters, so pasting my 64-character password worked to log in on the form. But the main site login page was taking all 64 characters, which didn't match the 32-byte password known by the forum.
I've shortened my password to 32 characters so I won't have this problem any more.
When I last changed my password on the forum, I thought I was pasting in 64 characters, but the password input only accepted the first 32. The forum login page similarly took only the first 32 characters, so pasting my 64-character password worked to log in on the form. But the main site login page was taking all 64 characters, which didn't match the 32-byte password known by the forum.
I've shortened my password to 32 characters so I won't have this problem any more.
Dude... don't take this the wrong way, but, what could possibly be in your TASVideos account that's so confidential that you need a 64 character password to secure it? Lol!
Dude... don't take this the wrong way, but, what could possibly be in your TASVideos account that's so confidential that you need a 64 character password to secure it? Lol!
Long passwords can be easier to remember while simultaneously being much, much harder to break. https://xkcd.com/936/
When a website does tot accept long passwords, they give me the sensation that they are storing it in plain text in the database, which is unacceptable even for non critical services. I'm sure TASVideos doesn't do it, though.
