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[–] 35 points 7 months ago (1 child)

I can't recommend password managers enough, because you will never have this issue again.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Password creation will still be annoying for sites with special rules. You just don't have to remember them once you generated them.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I've literally never had an issue with password generation. Usually I generate 32 character passwords with all types of characters passwords on average expect. If a page has different rules, I just check the corresponding boxes in my password manager, and I get one that works for that site.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Peguots(car brand) app requires between 8 and 16 characters, no repeating characters, and that it contain 4 of the following: uppercase letter, lowercase letter, number, a special character in this list @$!%*?&_- ;

    You'd think that'd be fine, but no. It took me several tries to generate a password that complied, even after limiting to only valid characters and a length of 16. I got the feeling there's an extra rule not shown,maybe lost in translation. In Norwegian it literally says "no repeat or successive characters" making it sound like I can only use a letter once, but thankfully not.

    Pure torture. And the app is so shit I get logged out often, and auto fill with my password manager does not work in that app. Pressing login also fails half the time.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Just yesterday my library required a new password. The password requirements were:

    • 8 to 18 characters
    • uppercase
    • lowercase
    • number
    • one of the 8 special characters listed

    When borrowing from the library physically, I need to enter this password on a touchscreen keypad. So no copy and paste from a password manager.

    They used to have birthdates as the assigned password for everyone. If you request a password reset, it resets to the birthdate. You have to change it on first login.

    A little better than before, but doesn’t feel secure.

    On the other hand, abuse is kinda difficult.

    For physically loaning books, you need the library card with its RFID chip. For anything digital, there’s no incentive or possibility for abuse really.

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