[aur-general] Email address too long for login page?

Lukas Fleischer lfleischer at archlinux.org
Mon Nov 2 06:43:37 UTC 2015


On Mon, 02 Nov 2015 at 05:44:44, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 11:31 PM, David Phillips <dbphillipsnz at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Is it just me, or is the field marked "Username or email address" on
> > the AUR login page setting a character limit below the length of my
> > email address?
> >
> > I will assume it's setting the maximum input length to that of some
> > other limit, like a maximum username length? If so, then perhaps this
> > field should be marked for usernames only and not username or email
> > address…
> >
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> 
> I think the current limit is 64 characters for both, but an update last
> week [1] changed this to 265. That isn't yet in the released version.
> 
> If the email address you used to send this message ^^ is the same one you
> tried using on the AUR, then I don't think there should be a problem.
> [...]

Actually, the database limit was 64 characters but the length limit of
the input field was much lower (16 characters by default) before d52b2f5
(Support long email addresses, 2015-10-25). Will be fixed in the next
release.


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