It’s infuriating to create a “strong password” with letters, numbers, upper and lowercase, symbols, and non-repeating text… but it has to be only 8 to 16 characters long.

That’s not a “strong” password, random characters or not.

Is there a limitation that somehow prevents these sites from allowing more than 16 characters?

I’m talking government websites, not just forums. It seems crazy to me.

  • witheyeandclaw
    6·
    14 days ago

    Piggybacking on this because i do IT for a major US bank that requires passwords to be a set number of characters for its employees. I don’t want to be specific, but it’s in the range OP posted of 8-16.

          • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            14 days ago

            If the company is not using WSUS, or the like, to manage updates, that’s on the IT department.

              • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                12 days ago

                I’ll explain slow. MS offers a native way to manage updates, both for servers and workstations. It’s called Windows Server Update Services (WSUS).

                Assuming you have your shit together as a Windows admin, you’re running the infrastructure on Active Directory (AD). WSUS is how you control and roll out Window’s updates in an AD environment.

                No surprises, no bullshit. Roll updates however it works for your org.

                Questions?

                • over_clox@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  12 days ago

                  Why the fuck would I ask any questions?

                  I literally patched and updated MicroXP 0.82 to the point that it can run Windows 7 in VirtualBox.