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this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2023
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One of my work applications doesn't allow you to use any of the letters in the same spot or any repeating letters . And it expires every 45 days . So for example if I used Batman1 for my password . I can't just switch to Captain2 because the second letter is the same . And you can't use something like Poophead because there are 2 O's in a row . It's a nightmare every time it expires .
that would instantly make me very dumb and require a lot of explaining on the phone. like "when I say hello mister Thompson and press down on your foot then you smile and nod, do you understand?" levels of dumb.
"I've used up all the vowels! there are only 5! this means the only password left is rhythm"
"no you can use the same vowels just they can't be in the same place"
"like I have to do it in my kitchen?"
"no the same place in the word"
"so it has to be the same word with different letters?"
"no, it has to be a different word with different letters"
"well like I said I already used all the vowels"
When it expires, bump every character up by one - A/a becomes B/b, 1 becomes 2, for symbols use the next one on the row.
That also means they are saving that information. I doubt a single character can be usefully hashed. Seems like a security nightmare.
It's also some shitty program that is all black screen with green text that was probably made in the 90s . From what I understand it's used by a bunch of different shipping companies and very unintuitive to use .
Edit: just googled it and it was released in 1988 it's called As400
Ah, crap.
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.1?topic=passwords-password-rules-qpwdrules
Those are some aggressive password rule options.
On the plus side, it may be over engineered all of the way to fuck and back. (Or not)
Edit: I searched for "as400 password rules" and that was the first hit.
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