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I think you're wrong. I login to Office 365 with a password that has over 16 characters. I have similar length passwords in Windows networks that use NTLM. Cle
by kyberias 11y ago
I think you're wrong.
I login to Office 365 with a password that has over 16 characters. I have similar length passwords in Windows networks that use NTLM. Clearly it works just fine.
- Alupis 11y agoJust a guess, but I've seen systems that just ignore the extra characters. VNC is one, and there's others. Example: Your password is 12 characters on a system that says make it 8 characters or longer. If you type only the first 8 characters of your password, it lets you in. As someone else said, "silent truncation".
- sbuttgereit 11y agoI think you're correct now, but I believe this changed relatively recently (maybe around a year or so?) In fact, in some Microsoft Account password setting pages, there are warnings that say setting the password longer than 16 can cause XBox logins to fail (I think this is in Windows 10 for example). All of this is anecdote from personal experience so take it with a grain of salt. I haven't researched it.