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Reminds me of those websites that force you to have a password that conforms to their overly-specific rules. Here is a real example: Passwords must be 8 to

Reminds me of those websites that force you to have a password that conforms to their overly-specific rules. Here is a real example: Passwords must be 8 to 12 characters long composed of the following character types: Uppercase Alpha (A, B, C, etc.) Lowercase Alpha (a, b, c, etc.) Numeric (1, 2, 3, etc.) or the following Special Characters (!, @, #, $,*, +,-) Each password must contain UPPERCASE AND LOWERCASE ALPHA CHARACTERS, and at least one character that is either a Numeric or a Special Character. So if your password is 13 characters long, it doesn't work. Or if it has letters, numbers and punctuation but no uppercase letters, it doesn't work.

joshfinnie 16y ago
Or even worse, accept your 13 character long password and just truncate it at 12. Therefore the next time you sign in your password is invaild and you have no idea why!
- chris_j 16y ago
  That's awesome :-) I had a similar experience. I'm based in the UK so I have my computer set up to use a UK keyboard layout. One time, I decided to use the # symbol in my Windows password. The next time I tried to log in to Windows, my password was rejected. I eventually discovered that Windows was using a US keyboard layout until I logged in, meaning that # was in a completely different location on the keyboard and I was typing a completely different character. Of course, there's no option to actually see your password while you type it so it took me a long time to realise that I had to type shift-3 to get that character. I'm used to getting £ when I hit shift-3, that being the pound sign that we user over here.
noonespecial 16y ago
Those are actually very close to the rules for setting up the admin password for windows server 2008 during install except that you're never TOLD those rules during the install. I spent half an hour typing passwords and having windows tell me that the weren't "complex" enough before having to go and google what the hell it was really after.

joshfinnie 16y ago

Or even worse, accept your 13 character long password and just truncate it at 12. Therefore the next time you sign in your password is invaild and you have no idea why!

chris_j 16y ago
That's awesome :-) I had a similar experience. I'm based in the UK so I have my computer set up to use a UK keyboard layout. One time, I decided to use the # symbol in my Windows password. The next time I tried to log in to Windows, my password was rejected. I eventually discovered that Windows was using a US keyboard layout until I logged in, meaning that # was in a completely different location on the keyboard and I was typing a completely different character. Of course, there's no option to actually see your password while you type it so it took me a long time to realise that I had to type shift-3 to get that character. I'm used to getting £ when I hit shift-3, that being the pound sign that we user over here.

noonespecial 16y ago

Those are actually very close to the rules for setting up the admin password for windows server 2008 during install except that you're never TOLD those rules during the install. I spent half an hour typing passwords and having windows tell me that the weren't "complex" enough before having to go and google what the hell it was really after.