[OT] Password regex change on mybills.co.il

[Valery Reznic]

Thanks to all for your help.
Now I was able to login into my account.
Downside is that now bills should be paid :(

>>Hi Valery,
>
>I'm not sure what you're trying to do here. Are you trying to debug
>their regex so they can fix it? Are you trying to make your own regex
>to produce valid passwords you can submit to them? You said:

Nothing of the sort - I was just wanting to be able to log into my account.

Valery


>>
>================================================
>Mybills claims that password should be 8-10 characters long and
>should include at least two digits and Latin letters.
>================================================
>
>Are you saying that all characters should be Latin, or only some of
>them? Should everything that's not be a digit be [A-Z,a-z]?
>
>Anyway, in my opinion regex is an abysmal way to solve this. Like bash
>one-liners and SQL, regex is great for writing a very short solution.
>Like bash one-liners and SQL, using it for stuff it wasn't intended to
>be used for takes more time than just writing out the code.
>
>So I'd do it more like this:
>
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>#!/usr/bin/python3
>
>MAXLEN=10
>MINLEN=8
>MINDIGITS=2
>
>import sys
>import string
>
>def isascii(ltr):
>    asc='ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
>    return(len(asc.split(ltr, 2)) == 2)
>
>
>def main():
>    groups={'digits': 0, 'letters': 0}
>    candidate = sys.argv[1]
>    if len(candidate) > MAXLEN or len(candidate) < MINLEN:
>        msg='BADPASS, password length must be {} to {}.'
>        msg=msg.format(MINLEN, MAXLEN)
>        print(msg)
>        sys.exit(1)
>
>    max = len(candidate)
>    for ss in range(0, len(candidate)):
>        ltr = candidate[ss]
>        if ltr.isdigit():
>            groups['digits'] += 1
>        elif isascii(ltr):
>            groups['letters'] += 1
>        else:
>            msg='BADPASS: Bad password character "{}", '
>            msg+='only 0-9, A-Z, a-z allowed.'
>            msg = msg.format(ltr)
>            print(msg)
>            sys.exit(1)
>    if groups['digits'] < MINDIGITS:
>        msg='BADPASS, password must contain at least '
>        msg+='{} digits.'
>        msg=msg.format(MINDIGITS)
>        print(msg)
>        sys.exit(1)
>    if groups['digits'] + groups['letters'] != len(candidate):
>        msg='INTERNAL ERROR, letters and digits don\'t add '
>        msg+='up to password length: Contact developer!'
>        print(msg)
>        sys.exit(1)
>    print('Password passes with flying colors.')
>    sys.exit(0)
>
>
>if __name__ == "__main__":
>    main()
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