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[–] [email protected] 105 points 1 year ago (4 children)

If they just showed the password rules on the login page, this would happen 80% less often to me.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's so annoying to have to discover the rules one rejected attempt at a time. Worse yet: sometimes you just get vague feedback a la "password contains illegal characters". I usually let KeePassXC generate a safe password for me but in that case I then have to manually permutate the different character classes (numbers, letters, spaces, punctuation, etc) until I find the offender. No good.

[–] stankmut 28 points 1 year ago

Password must contain an uppercase letter.
Password must contain a special character.
Not that one.
Not that one either.
Nearly had it there! Too bad you only get 5 attempts. Account locked.

[–] joel_feila 11 points 1 year ago

One time i hand to look up what "half width character" even was. Answer lower case

[–] yogurtwrong 1 points 2 months ago

Oh and the websites which either don't work with long passwords (24 chars) or don't work when the password is pasted instead of typed

KeepassXC autotype is a solution but it doesn't work on wayland

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If they just showed the password on the login page, this would happen 100% less often to me.