Opened 18 years ago

Closed 16 years ago

#3062 closed defect (fixed)

[patch] Remove arbitrary maxlength from UserCreationForm and PasswordChangeForm password fields

Reported by: Collin Grady <cgrady@…> Owned by: nobody
Component: Contrib apps Version:
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

At present, UserCreationForm and PasswordChangeForm have arbitrary maxlengths on the input fields for the password (and not even the same max).

As the auth code itself has no such max length limit, this serves no purpose but to cause longer passwords to fail. While not a common occurance, it did recently pop up, so there is at least some need for longer passwords :)

Attachments (2)

password-maxlength-removal.patch (1.7 KB ) - added by Collin Grady <cgrady@…> 18 years ago.
password-maxlength-removal.2.patch (2.3 KB ) - added by Collin Grady <cgrady@…> 18 years ago.
new patch, missed a few maxlengths before

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Change History (6)

by Collin Grady <cgrady@…>, 18 years ago

comment:1 by Collin Grady <cgrady@…>, 18 years ago

Summary: [path] Remove arbitrary maxlength from UserCreationForm and PasswordChangeForm password fields[patch] Remove arbitrary maxlength from UserCreationForm and PasswordChangeForm password fields

by Collin Grady <cgrady@…>, 18 years ago

new patch, missed a few maxlengths before

comment:2 by Simon G. <dev@…>, 18 years ago

Triage Stage: UnreviewedDesign decision needed

comment:3 by James Bennett, 17 years ago

Triage Stage: Design decision neededAccepted

The auth forms need to be rewritten for newforms anyway and this can be done as part of that refactoring, but there are some tricky dependencies. Collin, do you feel like taking that on?

comment:4 by Luke Plant, 16 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

(In [8180]) Fixed #3062 - removed arbitrary and unneeded max_length on password fields in auth forms.

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