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  • January 15, 2018 at 10:00 am

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    Grant Fritchey - Friday, January 12, 2018 1:24 PM

    Ed Wagner - Friday, January 12, 2018 11:44 AM

    drew.allen - Friday, January 12, 2018 10:21 AM

    :crazy:
    I had to reset my windows password today and kept having troubles.  It turns out that the 12-character password that I had entered was TOO LONG.  REALLY!?!  12 characters is too long for a password?

    Drew

    Now that's just sad.  In today's environment, I can't believe a system would have a limit that low.  Granted, everything has some sort of limit, but 12 characters seems miserly by anyone's standards.

    I had trouble logging into a web site recently. Finally got their tech support on the phone. Evidently my 15 character password was too much. Set it 12. Nope. Capitalized letters are a problem. What? Fine, whatever. Fixed that. Nope. Special characters? No we don't support those. Fine fixed that too. And finally... Nope. You can't use the letter x either.

    12 characters or less, numbers and lower case letters only, but not the letter x.

    I would love to have a chat with their data people and their developers. What the heck is wrong with the letter x?

    Gosh that sounds like our payroll system. It does not allow any special characters....nothing other than [a-zA-Z0-9] except it MUST contain a single $, # or !. And it must be exactly 8 characters. No more or less. The rules are so stringent it is isn't even remotely secure. WTF????

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