Main site password limitation discovered

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   Over the years on MMA we've had a few users report that they can't log-in to the main MMA site even though the forum works fine.
It's been discovered today through some testing and the cooperation of a user affected by this problem, that the main site actually has a character count limitation on passwords set to 20. This limit does not exist on the forum, hence the problem. As far as I can tell, the bug originates in the forum software which is supposed to cap passwords (and usernames) at 20 characters, but is not. 

While this may not explain every single instance of log-in issues experienced by MMA users, some of which testing showed to be on the user end, it does explain some of them. 

It is advised therefore that all MMA passwords are kept to a maximum of 20 characters. Forum passwords longer than 20 characters can be shortened to log-in to the main site without changing them, however, my testing has found. 

I'd like to apologies for any inconvenience caused by this. 

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adg211288 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Forum Admin Group Black Metal, Prog/AG Teams Joined: 05 Nov 2010 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 22240	Post Options Post Reply Quote adg211288 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Main site password limitation discovered Posted: 02 Aug 2021 at 1:15pm
	Over the years on MMA we've had a few users report that they can't log-in to the main MMA site even though the forum works fine. It's been discovered today through some testing and the cooperation of a user affected by this problem, that the main site actually has a character count limitation on passwords set to 20. This limit does not exist on the forum, hence the problem. As far as I can tell, the bug originates in the forum software which is supposed to cap passwords (and usernames) at 20 characters, but is not. While this may not explain every single instance of log-in issues experienced by MMA users, some of which testing showed to be on the user end, it does explain some of them. It is advised therefore that all MMA passwords are kept to a maximum of 20 characters. Forum passwords longer than 20 characters can be shortened to log-in to the main site without changing them, however, my testing has found. I'd like to apologies for any inconvenience caused by this.
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adg211288 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Forum Admin Group Black Metal, Prog/AG Teams Joined: 05 Nov 2010 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 22240	Post Options Post Reply Quote adg211288 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 02 Aug 2021 at 1:21pm
	Update: The forum actually is setting a maximum password length of 20 correctly, but it still permits the setting of longer passwords without alerting the user that the limit has been reached. But it only saves 20 characters. Trying to type more after 20 won't work, nor with copy/pasting in a longer password result in more than 20 characters. The main site on the other hand does not do this hence the Invalid Password error. Edited by adg211288 - 02 Aug 2021 at 1:23pm
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Nightfly Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Forum Admin Group Death, D/S/D, T/S/G Teams Joined: 07 Apr 2010 Location: UK Status: Offline Points: 5063	Post Options Post Reply Quote Nightfly Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 02 Aug 2021 at 3:11pm
	Well done on discovering that Adam.

Bosh66 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Forum Admin Group Sludge, MC, HC, Post-Metal & Noise Rock Joined: 14 Feb 2013 Location: Bolton, Lancs Status: Offline Points: 25510	Post Options Post Reply Quote Bosh66 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 02 Aug 2021 at 3:21pm
	Yes, good spot. At least we know now.

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	Great detective work Adam
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Iwan Ruby Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Forum Newbie Joined: 30 Jul 2021 Location: Indonesia Status: Offline Points: 39	Post Options Post Reply Quote Iwan Ruby Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 03 Aug 2021 at 1:35pm
	cheers.. for Adam