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Weird password rules for website to register
Do you know any websites which has password rules doesn't make any sense and it is really hard to work with.
Here is one:
https://arxiv.org/
Password must contain only letters, numbers, and underscores
- rolph 3mo agopassword rules make very little sense except for minimum number of characters. when you impose rules on a password you also imply a list of non-possibilities.
- stop50 3mo agoIn most cases i see an difference in the special characters.
- jambalaya8 3mo agoI remember a site that only prohibited certain special characters ($, #, %, /, \, *, ;, decimal point (.) and comma (,)), but others were fine. I remember it because usually sites prohibit all special characters or just a couple.
- dlcarrier 3mo agoThere's always this: https://neal.fun/password-game/ https://neal.fun/password-game/ On a more serious note, whenever a web site doesn't like my actually secure password, I try Password#1, and it works almost every time, with the most common rejection being because it's more than eight characters.
- beardyw 3mo agoThere was a story on here, I think, of someone who could no longer enter their password because an obscure character in it was no longer supported by their device, presumably Unicode. Can't find it now.