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Asking passwords twice is quite ok--even Unix does it; it's the other things sometimes asked twice which is totally useless. Most commonly it's something like h
by yason 15y ago
Asking passwords twice is quite ok--even Unix does it; it's the other things sometimes asked twice which is totally useless. Most commonly it's something like having to retype your email address. Woot?! You can already see it in plaintext so you can just correct any errors there.
- starwed 15y agoArgh, no! How many people would actually bother to visually verify their address? A typo here is actually more problematic than in your password -- if you typo that, you'll be instantly aware of it and can do an e-mail reset. If there's a typo in the e-mail field, you won't be aware of it until you forget your password and try to do a reset -- and for the majority of services, that means you are now completely locked out of your account.