3d ago

What is it with websites restricting passwords to 8 - 16 characters? Is there some technical limitation to their system??

It's infuriating to create a "strong password" with letters, numbers, upper and lowercase, symbols, and non-repeating text... but it has to be only 8 to 16 characters long.

That's not a "strong" password, random characters or not.

Is there a limitation that somehow prevents these sites from allowing more than 16 characters?

I'm talking government websites, not just forums. It seems crazy to me.

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Piggybacking on this because i do IT for a major US bank that requires passwords to be a set number of characters for its employees. I don't want to be specific, but it's in the range OP posted of 8-16.
- Be the change you want to see
  
  Like an individual dev can decide to make random changes to bank systems lol
- I'm sorry. Is there nothing you can do to fix it?
- Are they still running Windows 2003?
  
  Windows 11 and believe me updates cause no shortage of issues.
  
  Please wait while we apply updates...
  In the middle of the work day no less 🤦‍♂️
  
  If the company is not using WSUS, or the like, to manage updates, that's on the IT department.
  
  What company do you speak of?
  Microsoft?
  Literally what in the actual fuck?
  
  I'll explain slow. MS offers a native way to manage updates, both for servers and workstations. It's called Windows Server Update Services (WSUS).
  Assuming you have your shit together as a Windows admin, you're running the infrastructure on Active Directory (AD). WSUS is how you control and roll out Window's updates in an AD environment.
  No surprises, no bullshit. Roll updates however it works for your org.
  Questions?
  
  Why the fuck would I ask any questions?
  I literally patched and updated MicroXP 0.82 to the point that it can run Windows 7 in VirtualBox.

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