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The brokerage and banking company Charles Schwab has strict length limits— passwords can be no longer than six characters. I'm a little dubious of this claim
by themckman 13y ago
The brokerage and banking company Charles Schwab has strict length limits—
passwords can be no longer than six characters.
I'm a little dubious of this claim as I have several accounts (checking, savings and brokerage) with Charles Schwab and my password is longer than 6 characters. I'd be interested in knowing where they got this information.
- nodata 13y agoIf you change the last Length-6 characters and login, does it fail?
- zrail 13y agoNope. It silently truncates whatever you give it to 6 characters. edit: I just tried on my account and it's actually 8 characters, not 6.
- mcherm 13y agoI have a brokerage account with Schwab and I am using a 10 character password, so I can confirm your skepticism.
- ChrisClark 13y agoTry logging in with just the first 6 characters of your password and see if it's really looking at all 10 of them. Edit: Someone else commented saying it might actually be the first 8, so try that too if you want.
- tomasquintero 13y agoI just confirmed this with my account, it's truncating at 8 chars.
- ktsmith 13y agoIs it actually using all 10 characters? Can you log in with 6 characters of your password, or 8 as zrail indicated?
- slg 13y agoThey truncate your password (at 8 character not 6). Which makes things even worse in my mind. You might feel secure with a password like "Password329#*3j3f930#(4j49", but Schwab will simply validate against the "Password" portion without even letting you know the obvious security repercussions.
- wonderzombie 13y agoWhen I've tried to set a new password to one which includes symbols and is longer than 6 - 8 chars, they've rejected it.