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#24026 Suggested password does not match saved password

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Latest post by on Friday, 22 January 2016 17:20 CST

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Description of my issue:

Hi

I have multiple sites using Akeeba Backup.
I have just updated from 4.4.x to 4.5.1
After the update I have gotten the message about the password that is not strong enough and a suggested new secret word.
I just hit the button apply suggested secret word. This worked fine and I have updated the external cron jobs and everything seems fine.

But on 2 of the sites the password didn't work. And i found out that sometimes the password suggested before the "Apply suggested secret word" button is clicked is not the same as the password that is then written on the screen afterwards "The secret word has been changed to xxx" And the password that is saved is the one written on the last message.

Here are 2 examples:
Suggested: U13DJSlXlU_QMDL-bMtx1WAE3dfN6w-K
Saved: QG92KCXfQDCcfGpXHbOOK8wSDUkVOkm-

Suggested: HNz--TYRT4A-CG8im_j9jtlx2Q3-55f3
Saved: PfN2VpXAPD5Q77nKaoxHfjEMIcucW3fN

It looks as if the multiple - and _ could be the problem. The ones that worked didnt have multiple of these characters.

Best regards
Jacob Picht

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
Not really. What happens is that the session data got corrupt (I believe it's an adverse effect of the Joomla! 3.4.7 bugs). In this case the method which applies the password doesn't see one in the session and generates a new one. The generated password is always reported in the success message to remove any ambiguity.

Basically, the root cause of this issue is inside Joomla!'s handling of the session. We can't work around it :(

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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