I was trying to setup a SQL Server database for my site, but the form won't let me choose a secure password! If I put in something out of the dictionary or with only lowercase characters, it takes it, but anything with punctuation is tossed out with a cryptic error about the password matching the login id.
What's worse is I looke at the javascript code being used to perform the validation and it's the most cryptic piece of code I've yet had to decipher. My interpretation is that the validation code has a bug in it - it doesn't do a well thought out job of comparing the input to the validation pattern and the level of obfuscation employed would make it VERY easy for the programmer to do something incorrectly.
Anyone else run into something similar or is everyone out there just using simple passwords? Anyone else have thoughts of modifying the script to allow a proper password to be entered? I'm not advocating hacking the server, but I'm at a loss to figure out how anyone else would get around this.
What's worse is I looke at the javascript code being used to perform the validation and it's the most cryptic piece of code I've yet had to decipher. My interpretation is that the validation code has a bug in it - it doesn't do a well thought out job of comparing the input to the validation pattern and the level of obfuscation employed would make it VERY easy for the programmer to do something incorrectly.
Anyone else run into something similar or is everyone out there just using simple passwords? Anyone else have thoughts of modifying the script to allow a proper password to be entered? I'm not advocating hacking the server, but I'm at a loss to figure out how anyone else would get around this.