<>From: Brent Randolph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: -------------------password help In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Rosanne Griffeth wrote:
On Jan 21, 2005, at 12:31 AM, rb wrote:
the number of characters doesn't match anyting i normally use for a password (and the pasword hint
is way off/useless).
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.
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.
the hint was useless because the password i originally typed (that i pretty muc use for everything)
has only 5 characters - 6 if it needs a number...)
the number of "*" characters in the password field had 7 characters, rendering the pasword hint useless.
you say the # of "*" are a form of "password masking"?
i've never seen this before. if this is true, it's pretty confusing.
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'm afraid your powers of deduction are failing you here. yes, it's my machine.
i typed the password (and hint) into it when i installed the new os.
i just don't understand why i the password had seven characters in it when it should have only
had five (based on my "hint").
and.... it wasn't accepting the password i was typing based on the hint.
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.
well...... no, there isn't.
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.
well, that's pretty obvious, however unnecessary.
i typed the password AND hint in. the password has more characters than the hint could ever suggest.
.....unless it's an anomaly in this keyboard not accepting characters that i type in occassionally unless i
push down all the way on the keys, but that wouldn't have manifested itself as extra characters.
if anything i would have been short characters in the password.
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