My ‘favorite’ password rules are incorrect rules. Recently signed up to a service, which looked like it hasn’t been updated since the 90s. They sent me my password via letter, but hey, I was allowed to change it digitally.

So, I did. I set it to a reasonably long password (probably something like 22 characters), with no problems.

Then I went to login and it refused my login. I copied my password out of my password manager, for both setting it and logging in, so there was no way that it was wrong. I quadruple checked the login name, but no luck.

Eventually, I manually typed the password from my password manager. Then I saw it, their password field stopped accepting inputs after about 20 characters.
Presumably, I was able to set my long password on the registration page, but the login page did not accept this long of a password. Fucking ace.
I had to order another password letter.

I just had to make a password for a hotel.

8 to 20 characters Uppercase Lowercase Digits OR special characters.

The capitalized OR is important. You can have either numbers in the password, or special characters, BUT NOT BOTH.

Took me 8 tries.

• First one was too long.
• Second and third used both numbers and characters, but I thought the characters were TOO special.
• 4 through 6 used both numbers and special characters.
• Seventh password used just letters and numbers, and it was accepted.
• Eighth try I used just letters and keyboard characters, and that was accepted too.

Requirement: Needs special characters

Not accepted for some reason: using ọ̵̑h̸̞̉ ̴̰͒g̴͛ͅõ̸̦ḓ̵͠ ̸̳͌w̵̡̛h̴̦͘ŷ̵̫

Go ahead. Make a password. Then be left to deal with the mental & emotional damage.

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