MoinMoinBugs/PasswordForgottenOutlookProblem

When I requested 'Mail me my account details' because I once more was unable to remember my password, I got a mail message in Outlook that displayed something like this:

Login Name: GerkeKok

Login Password: {SHA}xYxYxYxYxYxYxYxYxYxYxYxYxYxY/Zz

Login URL: http://TheHost/OurWiki/moin.cgi/UserPreferences

Now I could not use the password provided here. Lucky me: I was the admin for this Wiki. So finaly I dug into the user file and found the Login Password was: '{SHA}xYxYxYxYxYxYxYxYxYxYxYxYxYxY/Zz='. It looks like Outlook ate away the trailing '='. I do recall there being somekind of encoding that tells mailclients that there is some special char in an email by using just this '='-char. I dug up the code that produced this code and appended some space in message. This did fix he problem. But I hope there are wizer people out there that could help fix this problem properly, please.

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(!) Moin 1.6 sendmail.py has some code that works around some bug in python >= 2.4.3, so I guess this is fixed.

If you see this bug with moin 1.6 (on this wiki), please reopen this bug.


CategoryMoinMoinBugFixed

MoinMoin: MoinMoinBugs/PasswordForgottenOutlookProblem (last edited 2007-11-16 22:41:03 by ThomasWaldmann)