Re: Using SMS for password reset.

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On Tue, 30 Jan 2024 23:39:09 +0000, Rich wrote:

> Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> wrote:
>> Just as an aside, when I created my online account for the bank, it
>> told me my user id, expressed as two four digit groups separated by a
>> space.
>> 
>> But will it accept the user id in that format?  No, of course not.
> 
> This is far too common.
> 
> What it means is developer team 1, possibly at time 1, created the
> "onboard a new user account" web pages, while developer team 2, likely
> at different time 2, created the actual "log an existing user on" web
> pages,
> and neither team talked or interacted with each other to learn what the
> other team had done.

I had a lot of trouble initially with the NHS app. It turned out that the 
password I was using was too long. I think it stored the long version, but 
truncated the one I typed in when logging in.




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