Login Error / Password 26 Zeichen

[rXhalogene]

Hello,

i have installed coppermine Galerie 1.2 with the Installscript.

at now, there is a big problem.

i can`t login.

there is no further message or something else.

the Password has 26 Chars!
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Moin moin,

ich habe ein Problem mit der Coppermine Galerie.

Nach der Installation via Install.php kann ich mich nicht einloggen.

kann es unter umständen daran liegen das meine Passwörter 26 Zeichen haben?

[rXhalogene]

Ok,

Coppermine Gallerie untestützt nur 25 Stellige Passwörter.

[Joachim Müller]

yes / ja :wink: - the password field in the "cpg11d_users" table has the type varchar(25). Use a tool like phpMyAdmin to have a look into this very table, you'll see how your pw is being stored.
Passwords with 8 characters (alpha-numeric) are considered to be rather save, 11 characters is ok, 14 characters is maximum, 26 characters definitely overkill (if someone attempted to hack your site it'd be easier to try a man-in-the-middle attack).
Use a password that will stand a brute-force attack: it mustn't be a word from a dictionary, no name or anything that could be guessed. The characters mustn't be in some logical order (keyboard layout "QWERT" or alphabetical "ABCDE"). Instead, choose a password that contains letters and numbers that make sense to you, but nobody else. I often use the first letters from a sentence I find easy to memorize. (Example: The sentence "My Password is pretty save, it has 9 Characters" would lead you to the password "MPipsih9C").

Maybe there's also a cookie problem for you, check the "usual suspects" (browser settings, delete cookie, different browser, different OS/machine).
For a more detailed answer, search the board for the term "cookie".

GauGau