2009/2/9 Stuart <stuttle@xxxxxxxxx>: > 2009/2/9 Jan G.B. <ro0ot.w00t@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> 2009/2/9 Stuart <stuttle@xxxxxxxxx>: >>> I would also advise against stripping and trimming >>> anything from passwords. >>> >> Trimming could be left out but it minimizes user errors and users >> pretending to know their password. >> (Like copy/paste from a passwords-file with added spaces on the end, etc..) > > Not sure what you mean by users pretending to know their password, Well, as soon as you come into contact with the support team of a quite big online store/community or so, you will see that there are trillions of users pretending stuff you couldn't ever think of before.. these people have the PEBCAK-Syndrome.. But that's quite offtopic ..here. :-) But I must admit - as a "power user" you would expect that whitespace as a suffix or prefix would not be stripped. Regards -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
