I don’t even know how the fuck this happens.
Enter password
Incorrect
Enter password again, carefully to make sure no typos
Incorrect
Change password to the one you remember it to be
“New password can’t be the same as old password”
😬
Shit sometimes gives me this while using a password manager! The saved password is correct. Even the change password thing says it should be correct. Still tells me it’s wrong trying to use it.
That just means they’re forcing everyone to change their passwords but they don’t want to come out and tell you about it.
If you’re lucky, some overzealous sysadmin is just trying to enforce regular password updates on his users, and makes them expire every once in a while.
More likely, there was a breach of some sort that they want to keep on the hush.
It’s also possible there’s a hidden max password size somewhere, like some fields only counting the first x characters of the password but it’s inconsistent across different forms.
USAA is guilty of this shit. Let’s you set a huge password. Truncates it. Doesn’t tell you about it. Error when logging in.
I want to beat the motherfucker behind this strategy.
E: Kagi too. I bitched out the support and I got a ‘meh, it should have told you’ response. Fix your shit.
The other day I used a website and they didn’t let me pick a password.
They sent me a very secure random one via email 💀 in the year 2025, this still happens.
