We’ve all been there.

  • SevenDigitCode@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    My favorite, though, is:

    types in password “Password incorrect” goes to reset password “please enter a new password” types in password “your new password cannot be the same”

      • stepone@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        It often means that one could have derived the correct password from the set of rules - but those rules are not shown when asking for the old password

        • 5too@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Exactly this. I want to normalize showing the password requirements when you don’t immediately get the password - if you made me jump through hoops the first time, at least remind me what they were!

      • tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk
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        1 year ago

        Sometimes it means the page checking the password is following a different ruleset eg. the main page is case sensitive and the change password page isn’t. Sometimes it’s stuff like the entered password is silently truncated to a fixed number of characters and because of that won’t let you log in. Sometimes it’s wierd character expansions being passed directly to the password checking routine (& or similar).