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What is it with websites restricting passwords to 8 - 16 characters? Is there some technical limitation to their system?? (self.privacy)

submitted 1 week ago by Showroom7561 to c/privacy

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It's infuriating to create a "strong password" with letters, numbers, upper and lowercase, symbols, and non-repeating text... but it has to be only 8 to 16 characters long.

That's not a "strong" password, random characters or not.

Is there a limitation that somehow prevents these sites from allowing more than 16 characters?

I'm talking government websites, not just forums. It seems crazy to me.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Piggybacking on this because i do IT for a major US bank that requires passwords to be a set number of characters for its employees. I don't want to be specific, but it's in the range OP posted of 8-16.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are they still running Windows 2003?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Windows 11 and believe me updates cause no shortage of issues.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Please wait while we apply updates...

In the middle of the work day no less 🤦‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If the company is not using WSUS, or the like, to manage updates, that's on the IT department.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What company do you speak of?

Microsoft?

Literally what in the actual fuck?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'll explain slow. MS offers a native way to manage updates, both for servers and workstations. It's called Windows Server Update Services (WSUS).

Assuming you have your shit together as a Windows admin, you're running the infrastructure on Active Directory (AD). WSUS is how you control and roll out Window's updates in an AD environment.

No surprises, no bullshit. Roll updates however it works for your org.

Questions?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Why the fuck would I ask any questions?

I literally patched and updated MicroXP 0.82 to the point that it can run Windows 7 in VirtualBox.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I'm sorry. Is there nothing you can do to fix it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Be the change you want to see

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Like an individual dev can decide to make random changes to bank systems lol