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What are some of the most unhinged (good or bad) password requirements/rules you've seen? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Context is that I had to register for a lot of accounts recently and some of the rules really make no sense.

Not name-and-shaming, but the best one I've seen recently is I might have accidentally performed an XSS attack on a career portal using a 40-digit randomly generated password...

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Not really a requirement, but my WiFi router has the admin password written on it as usual, but when you enter it and click ok, the password field fills up with characters and login doesn't work. What has to be done instead, is you have to click forgot password, enter the same password you just got denied with, and after changing it (to the same password) it just boots you into admin mode. You don't even have to confirm tour identity.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

I would slam OpenWRT on that shit so hard that the pisshead OEM firmware dev would feel it