Is your password longer than 60 characters? If so, you should know that your actual password was truncated to 60 chars at the time of account creation. You won’t notice on the website because the login webform automatically truncates characters beyond the limit, but most 3rd-party apps don’t do this because it’s an undocumented thing.
Basically, my advice would be to update the password in your password manager to be truncated to 60 characters and then try logging in with the app again.
What kind of maniac would use a password that’s longer than 60 characters?
I get that password managers are standard now, but anything outside the norm is just asking for trouble. I vividly remember updating a client’s webfrom to reject emojis in passwords, because for some reason people started using them and it wrecked havoc in the backend.
Oh man, the feeling of solving an obscure issue on the first try without having to ask for any extra hints: chef’s kiss. I’m glad I could be of assistance!
Nah, I was just playing around with the API and spent the better part of a day trying to figure out why authentication wasn’t working for me (I’d been using a 64 character password 🤦)
Is your password longer than 60 characters? If so, you should know that your actual password was truncated to 60 chars at the time of account creation. You won’t notice on the website because the login webform automatically truncates characters beyond the limit, but most 3rd-party apps don’t do this because it’s an undocumented thing.
Basically, my advice would be to update the password in your password manager to be truncated to 60 characters and then try logging in with the app again.
What kind of maniac would use a password that’s longer than 60 characters?
I get that password managers are standard now, but anything outside the norm is just asking for trouble. I vividly remember updating a client’s webfrom to reject emojis in passwords, because for some reason people started using them and it wrecked havoc in the backend.
That was actually the thing, thanks a lot.
Oh man, the feeling of solving an obscure issue on the first try without having to ask for any extra hints: chef’s kiss. I’m glad I could be of assistance!
I am very glad, also impressed by that detailed knowledge, are you working on/with lemmy? I’d whip out an award, but here are only poor men awards 🏅🏆
Nah, I was just playing around with the API and spent the better part of a day trying to figure out why authentication wasn’t working for me (I’d been using a 64 character password 🤦)