Never have this problem anymore with a password keeper. All new passwords are unique.
What REALLY pisses me off is when:
I absolutely do. It's not that the password was wrong. It's that they wanted to invalidate all existing passwords and make you change it.
The easiest way to do that is for them to force everyone through the "forgot password" workflow. Zero or minimal code changes. They don't want to make a new, but very similar , "we had a security breach and are requiring you to change your password" workflow. They just don't care that they're blaming you for their problem.
We require our users use a password that is in between 8 and 14 characters, contains more than 2, but not exceeding 4 special characters, and at least 3 uppercase letters, 3 numbers with 0 repeating digits.
Generator: ".....fuck you?"
And while requiring special characters, they only allow some special characters. So you just turn off special characters in the generator and then add an exclamation mark at the end
i just want to use ☭ and so few websites let you
Aaah. I made it so far but I was defeated by chess!
This is more of a work computer issue than an personal computer one.
Basicly every terrible website/service that "irreversibly deletes" an account
Here’s my recent favorite:
I’m a programmer and this kind of blatant stupidity from massive companies pisses me off to no end. MAKE YOUR PASSWORD REQUIREMENTS CLEAR. MAKE YOUR UX CLEAR.
Maximum password lengths at anything below 64 characters grinds my gears.
Signed up for a bank account once that limited you to 12 characters. 12. And you could only chose from like 4 special characters.
No 2FA. No no. But the customer service agent pointed out they require you to also use a 6 digit second password!
That's a 18 digit password where 6 of them must be numbers.
Absolute travesty.
All of these are reasons I will look to move my business to a competitor.
I hate how too real this has been...lol
Fucking Spotify. Tried to reset my password - 'There is no record of this email address' Tried to make new account with same email - 'You cannot create a new account with an existing email' :|
That's why you didn't remember. You did this before and made some 1 off password and you will never remember those 1 off passwords.
As a vpn user and a password manager user, for me it's often because a website decided to lock the account of anyone coming from a blacklisted IP.
Every single time
So been here!
I've often encountered this when a website forces you to change/update passwords too.
This happens because you're trying to re-use a previous password, which is not necessarily the current password.
The new password can't be same as any of your previous ones.
More likely it's happening because the password change field silently truncates your input and the login field doesn't, or vise-versa, because whoever designed the web page or system is stupid.
That is a possibility. But then actually setting a completely new password shouldn't work, yes? Because when you go to use it, it won't work.
I doubt that's the "more likely" scenario.
Tons of people have reset a login more than once, and then forget, which is what leads to this scenario.
When they forget the new password, but re-remember a previous one, they try to use it to log in. When that fails, they go to reset it again, and they try to set it back to the password they remember. Which doesn't work, because it is a previous password. But at the same time it is also not the current one.
The supposed catch 22 is that if it can't be their new password, it should work to log in. And if it can't be used to log in, then they should be able to set it as their password.
In reality the password has already been used, but before a previous reset. So it is neither a valid new password, nor the current password. This does not occur to people.
This can happen in any correctly configured service that prevents password re-use, and is therefore the far more likely scenario.
/me glares at ADP
I use a password manager, which auto-types the password, and I still have this happen to me.
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