[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am constantly amazed at the number of sites which FORBID the use of special characters in passwords and userid's. And by the sites which LIMIT the length of passwords and userid's. Since the number of possible combinations increases exponentially with the possibe values for each character and the number of characters, I cannot fathom why they impose such limits. But they do on such financial sites as Vanguard Mutual Funds, Scottrade, and World Savings. I eMail them regularly and complain, but I have seen no changes so far. There may be a case for forbidding certain special characters, and I think that requiring special characters might be counter productive, but I cannot see any logical reason for completely forbidding them.
Well, RACF for example doesn't allow special characters (apart from $, #, and @) in passwords. This makes it very difficult for any site to allow such characters if the user repository is RACF (or Top Secret or ACF/2).
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