This explains a whole lot…
Comment on A question about passwords | characters used in them
punkisundead@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
And then there are times you set a password and everything just seems to work fine, but later the new password never works. You reset the password, try again and really focus because you think you made some mistake with the password manager. Again the password you set does not work.
You begin to google the problem and see that there is a max password lenght of 12. But you always set passwords of the lenght 20-30 and the interface never complained. But because you are desperate, you try just the first 12 characters of the last password you set. And it works!
I hate HP printers.
FinancesDrone98@programming.dev 10 months ago
dog@suppo.fi 10 months ago
Old Steam calling.
Website and Client used different password rules, what worked for the other didn’t in the other.
owsei@lemmy.world 10 months ago
TL;DR: PayPal had reencrypted their database with a new encryption scheme, but it would accidentally cutout passwords larger than 8 characters. However one person in set their passphrase to “a$$word”, saving the day.
InfiniteFlow@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You, you can add that list. Motherfuckers will let you type a password as long as you wish, only to internally truncate it. Was driving me crazy until I tried to log in on the mobile app, where it does prevent you to type more characters…