My favorites are userids & passwords - if you've got a minimum required length for a userid, say so up front! It took me about a half-hour to find out that GMail had a six character minimum for userids the one time I tried to get an account. And don't get me started on password requirements - fortunately, I use PasswordSafe and it's auto-generate function, so each web site gets it's own unique password, but sometimes it's a pain finding out what they consider 'sufficient'.
Some day I'm going to figure out how much of the search space is eliminated by 'minimum eight characters, must have three out of four of uppercase, lowercase, numeric and special characters, no double characters'. Which means, for example, M1llen1a is not acceptable, but Mil1enia is.
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Date: 2007-12-09 06:14 pm (UTC)My favorites are userids & passwords - if you've got a minimum required length for a userid, say so up front! It took me about a half-hour to find out that GMail had a six character minimum for userids the one time I tried to get an account. And don't get me started on password requirements - fortunately, I use PasswordSafe and it's auto-generate function, so each web site gets it's own unique password, but sometimes it's a pain finding out what they consider 'sufficient'.
Some day I'm going to figure out how much of the search space is eliminated by 'minimum eight characters, must have three out of four of uppercase, lowercase, numeric and special characters, no double characters'. Which means, for example, M1llen1a is not acceptable, but Mil1enia is.