I hate passwords
I hate passwords
How on earth can you both not accept the password I copied from my password safe and tell me that I cannot use the same pasaword again?
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this is probably some half of the site is silently truncating the password, while the other half isn't
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Or adding a space because pasting. That happens a lot too
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I've never really understood why most systems are set up to reject a password reset if it's the same password. Is there a security issue there that I'm not picking up on?
It seems like they should just let you reset your password anyway if you've reached that screen (usually using some kind of authorisation, like using a link with a token in it that gets emailed to you or something).
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Get a password manager.
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I have some weird mental block regarding starting to use them. I really should stop procrastinating.
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Yes, please get a password manager. This improves both security and ease of use.
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This often happens when you entered the right password but have a typo in the user name. Everyone tries the password again, but nobody spell checks their email or username.
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You're right, this is plausible
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I once had to reset my password as the new one got truncated without telling me.
Yes. It was deemed too long.
It was for an company that got plenty of my personal data
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Why on earth would someone truncate a password? I could make at least 10 more memea about bad handling of passwords
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Why? Probably some wild row length limit being hit where a table storing user data was storing an asinine amount of data, just terrible DB organization in an org where someone said “who even needs a DBA.”
How? If you can truncate user passwords, you should never handle user passwords again, unless you’re a student or hobbyist learning a valuable lesson.
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