Hi, I created this account to check out lemmy. When I created it I left no E-Mail address and I entered a long password (90-100 chars) containing only letters and numbers which was generated by my password manager. However, when I now try to log in from another device or browser, it just tells me the password is incorrect. I still have access to the account because it’s still logged in to the browser session I used to create it. I also tried changing my password to a shorter one in the settings, but it doesn’t let me do that because it again thinks my password is wrong.

Did anyone else encounter something similar? Could there be an issue with using extra long passwords? What can I do to fix this? I also lost my actual first account https://lemmy.ml/u/ReliantGiant (what’s the correct way to refer to lemmy accounts?) to this problem…

  • @nutomicMA
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    123 years ago

    Passwords are maximum 60 characters, everything else is cut off. So try to login using only the first 60 chars of your password.

    • @ReliantGiant
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      53 years ago

      Thanks. Entering only the first 60 characters works. Maybe there should be an error message during registration if someone tries entering a longer password to avoid issues like these further down the line

      • @nutomicMA
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        73 years ago

        Yes, this will be fixed in the next version.