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Passwords (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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We've all been there.

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[–] 33 points 3 years ago (1 child)

My favorite, though, is:

types in password "Password incorrect" goes to reset password "please enter a new password" types in password "your new password cannot be the same"

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    That just means you entered it wrong the first time.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It often means that one could have derived the correct password from the set of rules - but those rules are not shown when asking for the old password

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    Exactly this. I want to normalize showing the password requirements when you don't immediately get the password - if you made me jump through hoops the first time, at least remind me what they were!

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago*

    Sometimes it means the page checking the password is following a different ruleset eg. the main page is case sensitive and the change password page isn't. Sometimes it's stuff like the entered password is silently truncated to a fixed number of characters and because of that won't let you log in. Sometimes it's wierd character expansions being passed directly to the password checking routine (& or similar).

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