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0 pointszaneyard8y ago0 comments

How are they supposed to know you use one?

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Not that they can really know, but most I've seen is that they disable pasting anything into the website, effectively making banking super slow for us with password managers and long passwords.

Fortunately, my bank doesn't disable pasting (Banc Sabadell in Spain). Instead the password is restricted to maximum 6 numbers for login. Yay banks!

pwg8y ago

In Firefox, at least, there is an about:config option to turn off the ability of webpages to disable paste. Flip that setting and managers work again on those pages.

mighty_atomic_c8y ago

6 characters? Let me guess, were there restrictions on character space and case?

One place I had an account has a password input that restricts all of those, so it's like an 8-10 character string of all capital letters. I don't understand it at all.

pwg8y ago

This is often an externally visible code smell that implies plaintext storage of passwords in a char(10) (or whatever the max length is) db column.

diggan8y ago

You read wrong, not 6 characters but 6 numbers. So no spaces or casing.

cortesoft8y ago

Yeah, I just disable their disablement. Super annoying.

ape48y ago

Their site was broken one day. I could not login. I told support that I had not forgotten the password since I was using a manager. Then they told me about the terms. Ooops. Luckily they didn't ban me or anything.

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diggan8y ago

Not that they can really know, but most I've seen is that they disable pasting anything into the website, effectively making banking super slow for us with password managers and long passwords.

Fortunately, my bank doesn't disable pasting (Banc Sabadell in Spain). Instead the password is restricted to maximum 6 numbers for login. Yay banks!

pwg8y ago

In Firefox, at least, there is an about:config option to turn off the ability of webpages to disable paste. Flip that setting and managers work again on those pages.

mighty_atomic_c8y ago

6 characters? Let me guess, were there restrictions on character space and case?

One place I had an account has a password input that restricts all of those, so it's like an 8-10 character string of all capital letters. I don't understand it at all.

pwg8y ago

This is often an externally visible code smell that implies plaintext storage of passwords in a char(10) (or whatever the max length is) db column.

diggan8y ago

You read wrong, not 6 characters but 6 numbers. So no spaces or casing.

cortesoft8y ago

Yeah, I just disable their disablement. Super annoying.

ape48y ago

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