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Post Post #0 (ISO) » Sun Nov 20, 2016 3:44 am

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I appear not to be able to login to the wiki. From my understanding I should be able to login with my username and password for the forum. My account clearly exists, as I get the bad password message instead of the invalid username message. Is there some sort of restriction on wiki accounts I don't know about (Like account age or usergroup membership)?
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Post Post #1 (ISO) » Sun Nov 20, 2016 11:13 am

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After experimenting a bit, it seems mediawiki does not like these characters in passwords:
&"><


The following all work:
[]{};.,!@#$%_+/()*'=-~:=-~\|`?


Since the wiki uses phpBB to authenticate, there's a bit of a discrepancy between username and password requirements. I'd try to change your password and see if you are able to get in after that.
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Post Post #2 (ISO) » Sun Nov 20, 2016 2:40 pm

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OK thanks. I'm using a randomly generated password, so it contains most special characters on the keyboard. I'll change to something without those characters.

Side note: The passwords are hashed, right? So mediawiki is just outright rejecting passwords with those characters before actually hashing them?
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Post Post #3 (ISO) » Sun Nov 20, 2016 6:47 pm

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I'd have to dig into it but considering which characters don't work I suspect they are URL encoding or simply stripped from the input. The passwords aren't store in plaintext.
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Post Post #4 (ISO) » Mon Nov 21, 2016 6:16 am

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Oh thank God. I was about to give MS a huge ass sideways glance
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