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Ebay claims that 20 characters is the max, but it's a lie - mine is 29. Likewise, Newegg claims that you have to have special characters, but my password has n
by smellf 12y ago
Ebay claims that 20 characters is the max, but it's a lie - mine is 29.
Likewise, Newegg claims that you have to have special characters, but my password has none.
I'd suggest trying the password you want and seeing if it gets rejected. In a lot of cases, some programmer may have fixed the crazy password scheme and forgotten to update the page text.
- oneeyedpigeon 12y agoI just changed mine to a random 32, but I suspect ebay just silently threw away the last 12. Will test ...
- oneeyedpigeon 12y agoNope, give them a tiny amount of credit: they're not arbitrarily restricting password length. It's just the instructions that are out-of-date (or just plain incorrect).
- Crito 12y agoAre you sure that your password is actually 29 characters? Try changing some of the last nine characters and see if it will still let you log in; they may just be dropping the last nine silently.
- w-ll 12y agoAmazon was doing this with password over 8 characters for a long time. It was inevitably fixed.
- jessaustin 12y agos/inevitably/finally/ Unfortunately there's nothing inevitable about this! b^)
- smellf 12y agoIf I leave off or change the last few characters I can't log in. They don't truncate the password.