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Obscure password requirements (feddit.org)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What is your favourite password rule?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That wouldn't have been (as much of) a problem if the initial password form also truncated the input. The mismatch is the problem.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Let’s say “you wouldn’t have noticed there was a problem if there was no mismatch”. But then a few years later that max length gets dropped or increased and suddenly your password, which has always worked, isn’t accepted anymore, because now you’re pasting 2 extra characters.

I was also not talking about password fields, exclusively. Pasting stuff like customer identifiers or zipcodes into maxlength’d fields also begs for surprises, especially when you can’t see the whole input when you’re done with it.