Wiki Access

[ConnorJC]

I appear not to be able to login to the wiki. From my understanding I should be able to login with my username and password for the forum. My account clearly exists, as I get the bad password message instead of the invalid username message. Is there some sort of restriction on wiki accounts I don't know about (Like account age or usergroup membership)?

[Kison]

After experimenting a bit, it seems mediawiki does not like these characters in passwords:

&"><

The following all work:

[]{};.,!@#$%_+/()*'=-~:=-~\|`?

Since the wiki uses phpBB to authenticate, there's a bit of a discrepancy between username and password requirements. I'd try to change your password and see if you are able to get in after that.

[ConnorJC]

OK thanks. I'm using a randomly generated password, so it contains most special characters on the keyboard. I'll change to something without those characters.

Side note: The passwords are hashed, right? So mediawiki is just outright rejecting passwords with those characters before actually hashing them?

[Kison]

I'd have to dig into it but considering which characters don't work I suspect they are URL encoding or simply stripped from the input. The passwords aren't store in plaintext.

[zakk]

Oh thank God. I was about to give MS a huge ass sideways glance