Re:NULL license plate not such a bright idea
by lysp on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @09:27PM
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I went to change my password on a forum site that I had not used in a few years. My old password was really weak - think "abc123" or something similar.
I logged in and then attempted to change my password to my new standard of 20+ character upper/lower/symbol. The problem was, they'd upgraded their forum software, and there was a bug that added password strength validation to the "old" password field.
So I was putting in:
Old: abc123
New: sZp10VzIoZI9g143
And was getting the error message "error: your password must be 8+ characters long". After about 10 minutes of frustration and realising they had both client and server validation I went down a similar route as you and used forgot-password even though I knew the password.
I logged in and then attempted to change my password to my new standard of 20+ character upper/lower/symbol. The problem was, they'd upgraded their forum software, and there was a bug that added password strength validation to the "old" password field.
So I was putting in:
Old: abc123 New: sZp10VzIoZI9g143
And was getting the error message "error: your password must be 8+ characters long". After about 10 minutes of frustration and realising they had both client and server validation I went down a similar route as you and used forgot-password even though I knew the password.