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Re: Using SMS for password reset.

From Rich <rich@example.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: Using SMS for password reset.
Date 2024-01-30 23:39 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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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.

This is the same symptom that gives "password" fields that (if a 
description is even privided) says "use any characters except $ and % 
for your password" [1] yet when you actually try to use a password with 
^ or # you mysteriously discover that # or ^ is also on the "you can't 
use that" list, but not mentioned in the visible documentation.  And 
sometimes discover that the documented $ or % is actually acceptable.




[1] yes, a code smell for a developer that does not know what they are 
doing

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    Re: Using SMS for password reset. Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2024-01-30 14:33 +0000
      Re: Using SMS for password reset. D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-01-30 16:38 +0100
      Re: Using SMS for password reset. Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> - 2024-01-30 13:39 -0300
        Re: Using SMS for password reset. Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2024-01-30 19:56 -0400
          Re: Using SMS for password reset. Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> - 2024-01-31 17:57 -0300
      Re: Using SMS for password reset. Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2024-01-31 11:10 +0000
        Re: Using SMS for password reset. Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2024-01-31 22:34 +1100
          Re: Using SMS for password reset. Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2024-02-01 15:16 +0000
        Re: Using SMS for password reset. Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2024-01-31 12:06 +0000
          Re: Using SMS for password reset. Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2024-02-01 15:48 +0000
            Re: Using SMS for password reset. Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2024-02-01 17:57 +0000
  Re: Using SMS for password reset. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2024-01-30 16:39 +0000
  Re: Using SMS for password reset. newsmaster@ausics.net - 2024-01-31 07:02 +1000
  Re: Using SMS for password reset. Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2024-01-31 09:45 +1100
    Re: Using SMS for password reset. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2024-01-30 23:39 +0000
      Re: Using SMS for password reset. Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> - 2024-01-31 00:10 +0000
      Re: Using SMS for password reset. Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> - 2024-01-30 22:30 -0300
        Re: Using SMS for password reset. kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2024-01-31 01:41 +0000
          Re: Using SMS for password reset. Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> - 2024-01-30 23:09 -0300
            Re: Using SMS for password reset. D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-01-31 10:58 +0100
      Re: Using SMS for password reset. Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2024-01-31 13:32 +1100

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