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As a life-long Mac user, I’ll have to ask. Why is it a “bad idea” to wake your computer by pressing one of the biggest keys on the keyboard?
by tobr 2y ago
As a life-long Mac user, I’ll have to ask. Why is it a “bad idea” to wake your computer by pressing one of the biggest keys on the keyboard?
- Arrath 2y agoIf the lock screen is set up to remember your username, the cursor defaults to the password text box. While one press of the enter key will wake the computer, its pretty easy to inadvertently double click it, and submit a login attempt with an empty password. E: I like to use the even bigger key on my keyboard and just slap the spacebar as I sit down.
- doubled112 2y agoI like to press the shift key because it has a high chance of not triggering anything.
- kps 2y agoI like to mash on Shift until the screen wakes. On some outlandish systems this enables Sticky Keys and locks Shift.
- nordsieck 2y agoI always use modifier keys like shift and ctrl for this very reason. Way fewer ways too accidentally mess anything up.
- aaronmdjones 2y agoYep, hitting Left Ctrl with my pinky is what I do.
- cjensen 2y agoThat's a design bug, not a user problem. Why are zero-length passwords treated as login attempts for a user with a non-zero password? Why are a cluster of login attempts permitted in such quick succession? There's so many obvious fixes here for what is apparently a common issue.
- simonblack 2y agowhat's wrong with using the 'Shift' key? That's my wake-up key. And that one doesn't transmit any active characters that can cause problems.
- DiogoRolo 2y agoPressing enter will submit the current written password in the prompt. If the user is using that to wake the screen, probably the password field is empty so you're submiting a wrong password which might lock your account for a while if you have several failed attempts already
- cosmotic 2y agoWindows should be smart enough to know an empty password doesn't meet the password complexity requirements or is of length zero and not count it against the 'bad password count'.
- DEADMINCE 2y agoThe goal is to delay bad actors, though, and that doesn't really help with that.
- rcxdude 2y agohow so? The form shouldn't even submit an empty password, and just guessing the same password over and over again is not exactly going to resuilt in success on the 1 millionth attempt.
- DEADMINCE 2y ago> The form shouldn't even submit an empty password, But it does. And if you have someone malicious trying to access the machine that way, why not lock them out on the first attempt? I can see the advantage in simplifying things by not submitting blank passwords also, although I also think it isn't necessary. > not exactly going to resuilt in success on the 1 millionth attempt. Not, but 2 or 3 attempts should lock the account. I don't see an issue in treating a blank password submission as an attempt, but I guess denying that is easier than trying to educate users.
- bentruyman 2y ago
- fusslo 2y agoin high school computer lab we'd lock our friends computer and hold down the 'enter' button to get their account locked for 3 minutes windows 11 (havent tried any others since vista) needs you to release the 'enter' key before it will try no password again