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Wait, what? That never happened to me. How do you go and find out your password then? Trial and error?
by randomluck040 5y ago
Wait, what? That never happened to me. How do you go and find out your password then? Trial and error?
- phepranto 5y agoThey might just truncate the password during login as well. I was able to login to my online banking using only the first five digits of my password not more than 3 years ago.. They fixed it in the meantime but I'm still worried.
- robocat 5y agoYou should still be worried, since any bank storing an unhashed password clearly has security fail.
- ylere 5y agoI had it happen a few times. Usually I would reset it a few times until realizing that it's obviously not saving the password I'm entering, at which point I would try a setting a shorter one.
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- Maultasche 5y agoThat happened to me many years ago with Microsoft logins. They were truncating passwords to 12 characters and my generated 16-character passwords never worked. I kept resetting them over and over until I did a Google search for Microsoft password requirements and found out that they were being truncated. That was likely fixed a long time ago, but I'm still wary of increasing my Microsoft passwords past 12 characters.
- GoblinSlayer 5y agoFWIW I use 30 character password with recently created skype account, and relogins work.
- mooreds 5y ago> Trial and error? Bingo. Super frustrating. See also this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24827031 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24827031
- Macha 5y agoI once had a bank that used substr(tolower(input_password), 0, 8) as the actual password.
- bell-cot 5y agoHeh. Late 1990's, I was an admin on a >1,000 user system - which was rooted because it had that feature, and another admin figured that 'meatball2&balloons' was a secure-enough password.
- teawrecks 5y agoT-Mobile did this to me a few years ago. Don't know if they still do, but I couldn't believe anyone thought that was ok.