[www.ads-software.com] SVN Password Truncation

  • As a publisher, if I set my www.ads-software.com password to say a 22-character random sequence of letters numbers and symbols, authentication fails when I update/commit my plugin.

    If I make the password shorter and only letters and numbers, say 8 characters, authentication works fine. How can I fix this?

    The only thing I can think of is the password being somehow truncated when it’s saved in www.ads-software.com profile options and sent to the SVN server.

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  • Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.ads-software.com Admin

    No, the passwords are not truncated. However, certain special characters, particularly non-ascii ones, can get encoded by your SVN client into something different before they’re sent. This results in a password mismatch.

    Length is not an issue, but the character set and code-page used is. Stick to plain ASCII.

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.ads-software.com Admin

    Also, we don’t actually know your password here on www.ads-software.com. It’s not saved anywhere. All we save is the hash, same as WordPress itself does. The SVN authentication does a hashed value comparison against that value. It’s checking against the database in real-time, your password is not “sent to the SVN server” on our end in any way.

    Thread Starter wpspamhammer

    (@wpspamhammer)

    It is already all ASCII; if it’s not truncated something else is happening here. Try it for yourself ??

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.ads-software.com Admin

    Perhaps it just doesn’t like some of the symbols you’re using then. Percent signs might be a problem. Not sure, as it’s an SVN thing.

    Regardless, I know long passwords work fine. My own password is not a short one. ??

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