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*sigh* yet another website where I try to make an account and the rules they give for a password are apparently not applied as such since the password I'm giving (which matches their descriptrion) is NOT accepted. (to add insult to injury they accept a maximum of 20 characters.) #idjits
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@mk of course, their contact form is also half-braindead.
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@mk I hate that, but hate it even worse when they silently truncate a long password and give you the "ok!" and later your long pw won't work
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@jonkulp oh yes, truncated passwords has happened to me, too. But not giving the actual rules always infuriates me.
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@mk yes very annoying. Lately I set my pw generator to 16 for relatively unimportant sites that don't spell it out. normally works.
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@jonkulp *growl* LinkedIn *growl*
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@clacke did they do that?? My ISP recently upgraded email servers, deployed Zimbra (sweet!) but changed PW limit from 24+ to 20 (probably inadvertent) but my PW was 24, suddenly wouldn't work. :/
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@jonkulp Did and still do. LinkedIn truncates password to 16 chars when setting, but not when logging in. And they don't tell you.
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@clacke that's awful. Memo to all admins: just increase your PW character limit to something high! 32+ at least, only people who use pw managers will go that high anyway.
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@jonkulp that's even worse then, when a valid and working password just stops working
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@mk yes and I was the one who figured out what happened, too, their support staff didn't know what to do. But I only figured it out because silently-truncated passwords had happened to me before on other sites.
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@jonkulp that's like what happened to me once: talking to the actual programmers who had to look in the code to figure out which special characters were / were not allowed, because the help text wasn't accurate. They did update the help text after that though.
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@mk nice to have a bit of knowledge, eh?
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@jonkulp :D
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@jonkulp And treat input from different forms the same. Man!