On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 7:25 PM, C. Kirby <mist...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just ran into an issue where a user was copy/pasting username and password > from a text file into the login screen. For some reason the c/p process was > adding a trailing space to their credentials and they were failing login. > > Is there a reason to not scrub leading and trailing spaces from logon > credentials > in django.contrib.auth.forms.AuthenticationForm.clean? I guess that leading > and trailing spaces would also have to be scrubbed when creating users as > well
It's a frequent practice to use special characters including spaces as prefix/suffix for passwords. If you don't like it, you can override AuthenticationForm. -- http://yourlabs.org Customer is king - Le client est roi - El cliente es rey. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
