From 09d7e5af945ae047ab83ea7bcd261f36e95099b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Adida <ben@adida.net>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 20:46:46 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] removed confusing characters from possible password
 characters

---
 helios/models.py | 2 +-
 helios/utils.py  | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/helios/models.py b/helios/models.py
index 8f92737..b1ce74d 100644
--- a/helios/models.py
+++ b/helios/models.py
@@ -925,7 +925,7 @@ class Voter(HeliosModel):
     if self.voter_password:
       raise Exception("password already exists")
     
-    self.voter_password = heliosutils.random_string(length)
+    self.voter_password = heliosutils.random_string(length, alphabet='abcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZ23456789')
 
   def store_vote(self, cast_vote):
     # only store the vote if it's cast later than the current one
diff --git a/helios/utils.py b/helios/utils.py
index 5bb805b..2db3dd7 100644
--- a/helios/utils.py
+++ b/helios/utils.py
@@ -119,9 +119,9 @@ def xss_strip_all_tags(s):
  
 random.seed()
 
-def random_string(length=20):
+def random_string(length=20, alphabet=None):
     random.seed()
-    ALPHABET = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789'
+    ALPHABET = alphabet or 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789'
     r_string = ''
     for i in range(length):
         r_string += random.choice(ALPHABET)
-- 
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