Wednesday, August 4, 2010

We NOW trim leading & trailing Spaces in Passwords

A User had a “phat” finger issue with a Go2Show generic login recently.

They accidently inserted a space at the end of the password when they saved. We mere mortals could not see that space but our encrypted password function was looking for that entry in order to validate the credentials.
After a frustrating search for a code failure we were able to isolate the issue. We deleted and re-saved the password, sans the “hidden” space and all was well. To prevent this issue in the future we have added a new code string that sweeps the leading and trailing characters of a user name and password.

Prior to this Update you could add a Space to your password for added security. You still can, except for leading or trailing positions.

Note: Any password made prior to this change will be unaffected.