> Alan Burlison wrote:
>> I have put a new beta of the Auth application on
>> http://auth.opensolaris.org/auth
Initial impressions (other than the default "looks pretty good"):
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Member names must be between 3 and eight characters long and
start with a letter. The allowed characters are lowercase letters,
numbers, period, underline and hyphen.
What about our European friends who have punctuated names, or
those in Asia whose names use more than the 26 lower case ascii
characters?
Good Old Garret D'Amore comes to mind, as do Jörg and the folks
in Asia....
Localization and internationalization should include this sort
of stuff as well...
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Passwords must be between six and twenty characters long and
must contain at least two letters and at least one number or
punctuation character.
Why "yet another password construction policy"? What if my pass
phrase is longer, or uses non-alphanumeric and non-punctuation
characters? Other sites analyze the entered password and inform
the user of its strength factor rather than forcing everyone to
use a single arbitrary site-specific scheme.
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Security Questions
The "default" should be "PICK ONE" rather than the first question
on the list.
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If you can't read the words, press the "Get a new challenge"
button to the right of the words.
There is no such button. Instead, there are three graphical
images, one of which has ALT TEXT that contains that phrase,
The above text implies that those images are ineffectual :-)
Instead, explicitly put the link in the instructions:
If you can't read the words, press [HREF'd IMG] to Get a new challenge.
-John
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