No idea if it’s all the passwords I have to remember, or part of getting older 🤔
This reminds me of when USAA would let you enter a longer password on the login screen than was actually possible to set, so if you generated a 14 digit password and lasted it into the password reset, it wasn’t immediately evident that it only took 12. But on login, you could enter all 14 characters and then it’d just say it’s wrong. I’m…90% sure they don’t do that anymore.
Also, KeyBank used to (or maybe still is? I closed my account years ago) not support case sensitive passwords. So whether your caps lock was on or not, or you alternated upper/lower however you wanted, your password still worked. I think they were converting to lowercase on the back end.
idunnololz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Use a password manager yoooo. I spent half a decade avoiding it and said fk it one weekend and set it up. It takes some time to set it up the first time but it’s the way to go.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I do. The damn bank website gave me “you can’t reuse passwords try again” on something the password manager generated for me on the first attempt at entering a password, and then the account froze and the bank manager had to unfreeze the account (the teller helping me couldn’t manage to unfreeze it for reasons neither of us understood). I think i have a hell of a knack for breaking computers if that’s a job.
HardlightCereal@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Breaking computers is a job. It’s called software QA
tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net 1 year ago
How to enter windows login password using password manager 😠
idunnololz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Install the password manager on your phone and view it on your phone. Then copy your randomly generated gibberish password with 700 characters by hand :^)
w2tpmf@kbin.social 1 year ago
With a USB barcode scanner and store a barcode/QR code in your password manager on your phone.
ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I use a password manager and have still had that happen.
Pasted from manager, incorrect. Ok, maybe I saved the wrong one… change password, use one saved because I’m too lazy to generate a new one - can’t be same as current. 😑 Fuck you, shit-ass Best Buy website.
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 year ago
This just sounds like user error to me. Click the correct copy button and it should work.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
It’s the single biggest quality of life improvement I’ve made in the last 3 years. I wish I had done it sooner (and if anyone reading hasn’t got one yet, Bitwarden is FOSS and can be selfhosted.)
I actually found it quite fun to go through all my logins and change any shitty passwords, adding them to the password manager as I went. It’s a great quest for when you want to procrastinate from doing something important by doing something that feels productive.