Rosanne Griffeth wrote:
On Jan 21, 2005, at 12:31 AM, rb wrote:
Not sure if this would help you, but my X 10.3.2 seems to repeat the password twice. So the number of characters will be double what the number of characters are of the actual password. I don't have any idea why this is, but it doesn't seem to make anything stop working and accepts my actual password.
the number of characters doesn't match anyting i normally use for a password (and the pasword hint
is way off/useless).
Rosie
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That's the point of password masking, so you can't play "hang man" to figure out a password to an account you shouldn't have access to. In most cases (and I've not really investigated this in OS X) the number of *'s has nothing to do with the number of characters in the password.
Also, if the hint is useless, why was it used? A hint is supposed to give you a clue as to what your password might have been, it's by no means a useless tool.
In all honesty it sounds like someone needs to gain access to someone else's account, as I can't imagine knowing that you'd need a hint to remember your password, yet not using the tools provided to make sure you never forget it.
I'd recommend the method of booting from the disc and resetting the password. If that's not an option, it would *really* seem like there's more than meets the eye.
Then again, I'm a bit of a stickler for security. When you reset the password, by all means use the "hint" as it's intended. If you're afraid that won't work, write it on a post it note (with no description as to what it is) and hide it in your wallet. I figure if you forget it, you'll always remember that you have a hard copy hidden away somewhere, one that would be meaningless to anyone but you.
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