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Larry replied on May 16, 2008 19:54 to the problem "7 character passwords suck" in Get Satisfaction:

If no one else will go through the frustration I went through when trying to register for your system - then I think the world is again a happy place..

Scott Fleckenstein replied on May 16, 2008 19:52 to the problem "7 character passwords suck" in Get Satisfaction:

Larry, this is probably a leftover issue from when we had the anonymous accounts in the system.

Larry Velez replied on May 16, 2008 18:28 to the problem "7 character passwords suck" in Get Satisfaction:

Scott,

I just tested this by having the system email me a 'forgot password' email. I then reset it to a password that used @ and it worked.

Another interesting thing happened, it stopped calling me cookie up top.

It may be that this only happens when you are first creating an account and converting it from an 'anonymous' account to a named account. That is when I saw the error.

Scott Fleckenstein replied on May 16, 2008 16:37 to the problem "7 character passwords suck" in Get Satisfaction:

Larry,

As far I know, we do... I've not been able to reproduce the issue. In fact, here's one of our tests, that passes:

  it 'should allow all sorts of crazy characters' do

    @user.password = '`~!@#$%^&*()-_+={}|[]\:";\'<>?,./*.'

    @user.password_confirmation = '`~!@#$%^&*()-_+={}|[]\:";\'<>?,./*.'

    @user.should be_valid

  end

It would really help me if you could give me an example of password that fails.

Are you by any chance copying and pasting the password from one box into the other? or are you typing it out both times?

Thanks,
Scott

Larry replied on May 16, 2008 14:08 to the problem "7 character passwords suck" in Get Satisfaction:

@ and ! are two characters I usually use. But I think you should allow all the characters on the keyboard:

`~!@#$%^&*()-_+={}|[]\:";'<>?,./*.

Scott Fleckenstein replied on May 10, 2008 05:40 to the problem "7 character passwords suck" in Get Satisfaction:

What special characters are you using?

I use exclamation points in some of my passwords. If you can give us an example password (obviously not one of your real passwords, but one that fails to save) I can add it into our test suite and ensure those characters work.

Larry replied on May 10, 2008 00:06 to the problem "7 character passwords suck" in Get Satisfaction:

I think satisfaction should allow special characters in the passwords or at least tell people that special characters are not allowed.

Most of my passwords have special characters and the system just tells me that the passwords do not match - when they do.

special characters - good
unhelpful error messages - bad