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Also, do restrict allowed characters when necessary. If one of your apps doesn't allow me to input a particular special character in the password field, don't a
by daveFNbuck 5y ago
Also, do restrict allowed characters when necessary. If one of your apps doesn't allow me to input a particular special character in the password field, don't allow me to have that character in my password.
- InitialBP 5y agoWhat kind of situation occurs where you can't input special characters in a password field? I think in general the advice is that there should not be any limitations on special characters anywhere in the tech stack at all. (Including a broken UI that won't let you input special characters.) The situation you described sounds more to me like a very poorly written application.
- unilynx 5y agoThere's one restriction you should do, trim spaces from the start and end of a password (or any input field, for that matter, unless there's a good reason not to). People copy/pasting from emails or Word documents are good at accidentally picking up spaces.
- daveFNbuck 5y agoSometimes the device you're logging in with doesn't have the full range of character sets available. This has happened to me with set-top boxes in the past.