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don't use SPACE key in passwords [BUG]

Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 10:52 pm
by G2covers
i doubt anyone would do this, but just for the record (and because it is technically still a bug).

when creating a new image via IFW (v2.71) in Windows 7 i accidentally ticked 'Encrypt Image', and rather than go back i just hit the Space Bar for the password. three days later i needed to restore it and used a new 2.71 IFD boot disk. this disk was created with the 1024x768 'windowed' options.

i was certain the password was just one tap of the Space Bar but IFD just came back with "Invalid Password". after more than an hour of password guessing i noticed that when the password field reset it would show an asterisk for every attempted character except spaces. maybe it was somehow not registering them?

i tried again with my old 2.55 IFD boot disk which has the standard, lo-res DOS interface and sure enough the one-tap-of-the-space-bar password is now accepted!

the only difference - apart from the older version - is the nature of the IFD interface.

Re: don't use SPACE key in passwords [BUG]

Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 3:43 am
by celavey
I guess this is my first reason not to upgrade yet until it has been fixed. Thanks for sharing.

Re: don't use SPACE key in passwords [BUG]

Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 1:14 pm
by mjnelson99
Not having a space in passwords is common practice. Are you
sure it is a bug?????


On 5/13/2012 10:43 PM, celavey wrote:
> I guess this is my first reason not to upgrade yet until it has been fixed. Thanks for sharing.
>
>

Re: don't use SPACE key in passwords [BUG]

Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 2:48 pm
by TeraByte Support
sounds like he says you can't enter spaces in the password field of the GUI
version of IFD.

"mjnelson99" wrote in message news:2302@public.image...

Not having a space in passwords is common practice. Are you
sure it is a bug?????


On 5/13/2012 10:43 PM, celavey wrote:
> I guess this is my first reason not to upgrade yet until it has been
> fixed. Thanks for sharing.
>
>


Re: don't use SPACE key in passwords [BUG]

Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 3:25 pm
by mjnelson99
If you try to use a password with a space in it on almost
any commercial site, you will be refused.

Use underscore or some other symbol instead. What will be
accepted varies with the particular program/site involved.

On 5/15/2012 9:48 AM, TeraByte Support wrote:
> sounds like he says you can't enter spaces in the password field of the GUI
> version of IFD.
>
> "mjnelson99" wrote in message news:2302@public.image...
>
> Not having a space in passwords is common practice. Are you
> sure it is a bug?????
>
>
> On 5/13/2012 10:43 PM, celavey wrote:
>> I guess this is my first reason not to upgrade yet until it has been
>> fixed. Thanks for sharing.
>>
>>
>
>

Re: don't use SPACE key in passwords [BUG]

Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 7:17 pm
by DrTeeth
On Tue, 15 May 2012 08:25:06 PDT, just as I was about to take a herb,
mjnelson99 disturbed my reverie and wrote:

>If you try to use a password with a space in it on almost
>any commercial site, you will be refused.

The OP says that a space used to work with earlier versions of an IfD
disk so I would call it a bug or "an undocumented change in behaviour
by design" in MS speak.
--

Cheers

DrT
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