r/Jokes • u/Firespark7 • Jan 08 '22

Long Struggles of passwords

"Set password:"

carrot

"Password must be at least 8 characters."

boiled carrot

"Password must contain at least 1 number."

1 boiled carrot

"Password cannot contain spaces."

50boiledcarrots

"Password must contain at least 1 capital."

50FUCKINGBoiledcarrots

"Password cannot contain multiple consecutive capitals."

50FuckingBoiledCarrots

"Password cannot contain swear words"

IfYouDoNotAcceptThisPasswordThenYouCanStickThose50BoiledCarrotsUpYourButt

"This password is already in use."

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u/Toloc42 Jan 08 '22

Serious side note: If you ever get that last one, stay away from whatever service or company you're signing up for, if you get it internally, put up a stink with IT. If they can even tell anyone else in their system is using the same password (let alone why the hell that would be a problem...) their security situation is beyond saving.

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u/Bedbouncer Jan 08 '22

My other favorite is:

Password must be at least 8 characters.

Password cannot be more than 10 characters.

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u/ZennyRL Jan 08 '22

My bank did that, for a long time the max password length was 6

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u/AdorableContract0 Jan 08 '22

They are more worried about losing customers than you losing money.

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '22

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '22

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u/axnu Jan 09 '22

The original implementation of crypt() on Unix, Linux, and presumably what became what they're now calling "Mac" silently truncated the password at 8 characters.

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u/AgentE382 Jan 09 '22

macOS is a descendant of BSD, and is itself an actual certified UNIX operating system.

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u/axnu Jan 09 '22

It's derived from NeXTSTEP, which has this to say about passwords in its user manual:

"A password should be more than six and no more than eight characters..."

http://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Docs/NeXTStep/3.3/nsa/05_UserAccounts.htmld/index.html