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Re: [savannah-help-public] Fwd: savannah.gnu.org Verification
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Bob Proulx |
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Re: [savannah-help-public] Fwd: savannah.gnu.org Verification |
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Sat, 10 Jun 2017 13:43:47 -0600 |
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Hi Tom,
Tom Uijldert wrote:
> I finally succeeded in changing it by using a completely different password.
> Apparently I tried to change it with a password that was already used, had
> been used before or similar.
Hmm... As far as I know there isn't any saving of old passwords and
prevention of reusing them again. I know that many corporate sites do
that type of thing. But as far as I know there isn't that restriction
on the Savannah systems. And actually I would oppose that type of
restriction if it is implemented there.
> What initially threw me off track was the incredibly cryptic "Error: missing
> parameters".
That sounds like some type of internal error that is being propagated
out to the user. I don't think it is an intentional error message
being delivered to you. From the message I am thinking that when the
PHP code is passing the information to the 'pwqcheck' program for
checking that something unexpected is going wrong there.
> That does not really indicate that there's something wrong with the
> password, I associated it more with a bug at the backend.
Agreed.
> Couple that with a rather cryptic help text of what is exactly checked about
> the new password and the confusion is complete.
Agreed! :-(
> FWIW, these may be 2 suggestions to improve the user-friendliness of that
> page somewhat.
>
> Hope this helps,
Yes. Thank you for the details. It helps a lot.
The web interface has a shortage of volunteers working on it. One of
the problems is that it is not trivial to set up a test instance of
it. Assaf has been working to make that easier. But I haven't done
so for myself yet. Which means that I personally don't have an easy
way to test problems in the web interface out. I need to find some
time to work through setting up a test instance so that I can debug
problems like the one you are reporting.
Bob