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Title: Password Format
Post by: [email protected] on May 04, 2006, 11:55:22 PM

I had a problem in that my bank would not accept your password. It required at least one letter or one number in a minimum of six digits in the password. Has this problem been fixed or is it planned to fix it in the future? Thanks
keith383

Title: Password Format
Post by: morguns on May 05, 2006, 02:26:51 AM

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It required at least one letter or one number in a minimum of six digits

passwordmaker will meet (exceed actually) those requirements with default settings (i.e. default character set). i'd bet the problem you're experiencing is more likely the bank system doesn't like special characters. change the character set to use only numbers, upper case letters, and lower case letters and i bet it will work fine.

Title: Password Format
Post by: Eric H. Jung on May 05, 2006, 03:00:29 AM

I think he means the digit and letter must be in a precise position in the password, no?

Title: Password Format
Post by: morguns on May 05, 2006, 01:54:02 PM

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I think he means the digit and letter must be in a precise position in the password, no?

perhaps; i guess the original post could be interpreted either way. i know a couple of sites i use break if i use special characters in the password, so i change the character set to make things happy-happy, joy-joy again :)

Title: Password Format
Post by: Eric H. Jung on May 06, 2006, 01:28:10 AM

/me loves Ren & Stimpy!

Title: Password Format
Post by: Miquel 'Fire' Burns on May 06, 2006, 01:37:58 AM

/me can't believe he missed the obvious Ren & Stimpy reference

Title: Password Format
Post by: Eric H. Jung on May 06, 2006, 11:01:04 AM

Who missed it.... me?? I'm the one that posted it!

Title: Password Format
Post by: tanstaafl on May 06, 2006, 03:20:17 PM

Quote from: keith383

I had a problem in that my bank would not accept your password. It required at least one letter or one number in a minimum of six digits in the password. Has this problem been fixed or is it planned to fix it in the future? Thanks
keith383

Hi Keith,

I think your question has already been answered, but you might be interested in voting for the New Character Set Selection Interface (http://forums.passwordmaker.org/index.php?s=&showtopic=845&view=findpost&p=1277794) Feature Request, by replying to the Feature Request List (http://forums.passwordmaker.org/index.php?showtopic=167) thread. You get a total of five votes, so be sure to vote for any others that interest you as well.

Charles

Title: Password Format
Post by: morguns on May 07, 2006, 11:11:36 PM

i made a reference to Ren & Stimpy?! i wonder where i picked it up, because i've never even seen it flipping thru the channels :)

Title: Password Format
Post by: Eric H. Jung on May 07, 2006, 11:43:17 PM

Yep:

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happy-happy, joy-joy

Title: Password Format
Post by: thibros on May 09, 2006, 08:37:00 AM

I think keith383 had the problem that I had too in the beginning. If the character set is reduced to only letters and numbers, there's a 'chance' that the generated password will not include any numbers. Especially if it's only six or eight digits.

There're several ways around:

Use a number as prefix or suffix. (this will fix it for every site)
Increase the length of the password.
Use a modifier for that site, until the password shows a number.
Put more numbers into the character set.
Do anything else that lets PasswordMaker generate a new password.

Title: Password Format
Post by: Eric H. Jung on May 09, 2006, 11:54:41 AM

Good point, Thibros. Thanks for the tip.

Title: Password Format
Post by: tanstaafl on May 09, 2006, 01:35:15 PM

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Hi Keith,

I think your question has already been answered, but you might be interested in voting for the New Character Set Selection Interface (http://forums.passwordmaker.org/index.php?s=&showtopic=845&view=findpost&p=1277794) Feature Request, by replying to the Feature Request List (http://forums.passwordmaker.org/index.php?showtopic=167) thread. You get a total of five votes, so be sure to vote for any others that interest you as well.

Charles

Ooops, actually, Keiths request wouldn't be fulfilled by the New Character Set Selection Interface (http://forums.passwordmaker.org/index.php?s=&showtopic=845&view=findpost&p=1277794) Feature Request, but it would be fulfilled by the Password Template Filter (http://forums.passwordmaker.org/index.php?showtopic=919) request. Added his vote for this one...

Title: Password Format
Post by: forbin on May 09, 2006, 03:26:09 PM

Quote from: tanstaafl

Ooops, actually, Keiths request wouldn't be fulfilled by the New Character Set Selection Interface (http://forums.passwordmaker.org/index.php?s=&showtopic=845&view=findpost&p=1277794) Feature Request, but it would be fulfilled by the Password Template Filter (http://forums.passwordmaker.org/index.php?showtopic=919) request. Added his vote for this one...

  Very nice .. Keep the votes coming