I hate when websites have some weird rules for passwords, and show the rule when you are creating the password, but not when entering it. How am I supposed to remember the password must begin and end with a special character?

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 16 points 20 hours ago

I can't recommend password managers enough, because you will never have this issue again.

[–] protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

and when the rule is also wrong example: password must contain special charcters the password contained : and ^ if those aren't special characters idk what is

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 2 points 50 minutes ago

I never get bored of discovering yet another software that gets broken because someome put a dollar sign in their password...

[–] sus@programming.dev 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

maybe they were looking for extra special characters like 🁄 or ⶸ. Who am I kidding, RFC 1738 tells us that literally everything is unsafe and you know, we need to prepare for the inevitable occasion when the password somehow ends up inside an URL.

The characters "<" and ">" are unsafe because they are used as the delimiters around URLs in free text;
the quote mark (""") is used to delimit URLs in some systems.
The character "#" is unsafe
The character "%" is unsafe

It ends up with

Thus, only alphanumerics, the special characters
$ - _ . + ! * ' ( ) ,
are safe

[–] AceOnTrack@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Having to alter my one generic password I use for random ass website because there's a stupid extra rule is usually annoying me enough that I don't register lmao.

[–] MinekPo1@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 9 hours ago

honestly I prefer to go the other route : if a website complains about a generic randomly generated password , especially if they have very specific rules I take it as a challenge to make a password with as much entropy as possible , preferably to the point where any reasonable hash can express less entropy

[–] YellowTraveller@lemmy.zip 11 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Password manager?

[–] AceOnTrack@lemmy.blahaj.zone -2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I use it for important things that require actual security. Everything else gets the one password treatment.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 18 hours ago

I use a mental algorithm that means my password is always different on paper, but is always deducible by me.