[FOSDEM] Penta "Passwords do not match" error on save

[Mahmoud Abdelghany]

Thanks Alasdair, Orlin!

Will tell the speaker about these solutions/workarounds.


Regards,

Mahmoud

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On Thursday, December 16th, 2021 at 12:28 AM, Alasdair G Kergon <agk at fosdem.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 02:08:49PM +0000, Orlin Vasilev wrote:
>
> > Got the same issue, happened when you try to save your profile info but
> >
> > you don’t have the second field of password filled in!
>
> Yes, this is a known problem with some web browsers that try to be helpful
>
> by pre-filling one of the two password change fields. It's not obvious if the
>
> field is in a hidden tab that you didn't even view. Just blank out the field.
>
> Maybe we should fix the back-end to ignore password change attempts unless
>
> both fields are supplied.
>
> Alasdair