Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bob Eager Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Using SMS for password reset. Date: 31 Jan 2024 00:10:33 GMT Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net n2r7jUUEVS1tRsSIAa5qVAjWFdQ6IbzSHkqabVddJBKWjAf4CM Cancel-Lock: sha1:oaQNAhhMnaHg9jLcO8O/S8haztE= sha256:HgKc987zzh5Rtc1sYjNnAALWv5nEmzXrHV3oB9fCD4g= User-Agent: Pan/0.145 (Duplicitous mercenary valetism; d7e168a git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:23885 On Tue, 30 Jan 2024 23:39:09 +0000, Rich wrote: > Sylvia Else 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. -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org