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Bug 675190 - Forgot password does not remind limit of 16 caracters
Forgot password does not remind limit of 16 caracters
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 647849
Product: bugzilla.gnome.org
Classification: Infrastructure
Component: user accounts
unspecified
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Reported: 2012-04-30 21:14 UTC by andres
Modified: 2012-05-01 20:14 UTC
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Description andres 2012-04-30 21:14:19 UTC 
It has been some time since I have needed to reporta bug. Your products are so good!

But I had forgotten my password so I wrote a new one (larger than 16 caracters) I did not get any warning of it being too big so I tried logging in. I was desperate because it did not let me log in, tried the "forgot password" several times. Finally attempted to create a new account with a new email thinking i had some sort of bug in mine. That is when I saw that it was a 16 caracter limit. Tried my password again this time ignoring the last caracters and I was able to log in. 

I was expecting to get a warning of some sort in the type your password, type your password again phase. I think that someone less persistant than myself would give up reporting bugs.
Comment 1 André Klapper 2012-04-30 21:27:16 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 647849 ***
Comment 2 andres 2012-05-01 18:33:22 UTC 
Hi André I agree that accepting long passwords would solve the problem but I think the bug I report here can be solved simply by adding "remember new password must be 16 characters long" in the new password/ repeat new password prompt. 

Solving bug 647849 might be a more difficult issue and will take more time?
Comment 3 André Klapper 2012-05-01 20:14:42 UTC 
We probably won't solve either of them and wait for upstream fixing instead. Your proposal could be added to bug 647849 though.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 647849 ***