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Re: Invalid Password
by thomas895 (Deacon) on Jun 10, 2012 at 03:10 UTC
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I've had this happen to me as well. Try deleting the cookie, userpass, and try again.
That fixed it for me, at least.
~ Thomas~
confess( "I offer no guarantees on my code." );
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Re: Invalid Password (fixed)
by tye (Sage) on Jun 10, 2012 at 04:31 UTC
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The trouble you were running into should now be fixed. What method did you use to change your password?
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I didn't realise at the time that PM restricted passwords to 8 characters and gave myself a longer one. The characters come easily to my fingers, but if I put in the longer password, I can't log in. Before the week-end, I was able to. Are longer passwords now distinguished from 8 character ones? Something has certainly changed, but I see no Tidings on the subject.
Regards,
John Davies
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(not for me)
Even you seem to be able to log in successfully, which is what was "(fixed)". If you find it difficult to stop at 8 characters, then simply edit your profile and re-set your password (which will then be truncated at 10 characters, since that was also "(fixed)").
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Re: Invalid Password
by Xenther (Novice) on Jun 10, 2012 at 10:33 UTC
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Clearing the cookie worked for me! I changed my password via my Profile page, it asked me to login with my new password and I couldn't get back in. | [reply] |
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I changed my password via my Profile page
That seems unlikely. The "edit" view of your profile page specifies a maxlength which requests that your browser prevent you from typing too long of a password. That same feature is what was preventing you, on one of our 'log in' forms, from entering the 10-character password that you somehow ended up with.
This feature came up a while back when somebody used their own form submission code to change their password and then couldn't use the default site forms to log in. I was hoping you might inform me of some weird way you were able to set too-long of a password.
But, in the mean time, I decided to make the current database restriction on password length (10 characters) be reflected in the password-handling forms of the site (which used to specify a maximum length of 8 characters) because that should eliminate the possibility of having a password that you can't use via the default forms (except for the intentional feature documented in How can I wipe every trace of myself from PerlMonks?).
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I used the LastPass (https://lastpass.com/) Firefox extension to generate the password, which auto inserted it into the password fields.
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Re: Invalid Password
by mje (Curate) on Jun 11, 2012 at 12:19 UTC
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I don't think it will help you but just so it is noted here. For years I've used a 9 chr password fine. I've always known only 8 were used but I guessed it was truncated at 8. This morning my 9 chr password no longer works but if I enter the first 8 it does work. When I request my password it is delivered as 8 chrs. I believe the last time my 9 chr password was accepted was last Friday.
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