Friday, June 2, 2006

Passwords, argh

With all the things I need to do to get organized around a new job, one of the things I've ended up doing a lot of is creating new accounts.  With new passwords, of course.

What really irks me is that there is *no* consistency in the password requirements, so, even if I wanted to reuse a password for a few things, it would be darn near impossible.

{0,2}capital letters, {0,2}numbers {0,2}lowercase letters, {4-6}minimum characters, {4-8}maximum characters.
The situation has gotten, well, frankly ridiculous.  Maybe Passport (or something similar) wasn't as horrible an idea as it first appeared.

2 comments:

Pug Majere said...

So you can't re-use passwords -- isn't that a good thing from a security point of view? Not that anybody ever goes to much trouble to avoid re-using passwords, of course. I have been using the same 4-6 combinations for years now.

Pug Majere said...

Well, the thing is that having a different password for *everything* means that you have a lot of passwords written down, or, alternatively, very very few things with passwords.

It's just a random frustration of not having any idea what passwords I used in which places. I suppose I should just let my browser remember and give in.