Ramblings of an old Doc
Published on September 14, 2013 By DrJBHL In Personal Computing

I hate passwords which expire. This is why.

 

Sorry your password has expired- you must register a new one.
 
Did anyone discover that password and hack my computer?
 
No, but your password has expired- you must get a new one.
 
Why do I need a new one since that one seems to be working pretty well?
 
Well, you must get a new one as they automatically expire every 30 days.
 
Can I use the old one and just re-register it?
 
No, you must get a new one.
 
I don't want a new one since that is one more thing for me to remember.
 
Sorry, you must get a new one.
 
OK, roses.
 
Sorry you must use more letters.
 
OK, pretty roses

No good, you must use at least one numerical space.
  
OK, 1 pretty rose
 
Sorry, you cannot use blank spaces.
 
OK, 1prettyrose
 
Sorry, you must use additional spaces.
 
OK, 1fuckingprettyrose
 
Sorry, you must use at least one capital letter.
 
OK, 1FUCKINGprettyrose
 
Sorry, you cannot use more than one capital letter in a row.
 
OK, 1Fuckingprettyrose
 
Sorry, you cannot use that password as you must use additional letters.
 
OK,  1FUCKINGprettyroseshovedupyourassifyoudon'tgivemeaccessrightfuckingnow
 
Sorry, you cannot use that password as it is already being used


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on Sep 14, 2013

Sounds like one of the password protected places I use and you have to change it every 60 days!

on Sep 14, 2013

hahahaha

sorry for your frustration, but good laughs

 

thank you, needed that

on Sep 14, 2013

Doc, that was funny as hell! I didn't know you did stand up.

 

on Sep 14, 2013

Sorry Doc.I am laughing so hard because i just went through that last night.I see i have good company

I finally said F it,will try again when i calm down. 

on Sep 14, 2013

The military is like that, with worse requirements.  Leads to folks either writing it down, or forgetting it and using a reset every time.

 

on Sep 14, 2013

Know exactly Howe you feel. Have to keep track of 8 passwords at the office and they all have different password expiry durations. Frustrating is an understatement. With two of them, I just have help desk reset my password for me when I requiraces chess. They complain to me...and I complain right back. Since the work needs to get done, they have to give me a password or they are impeding progress. It's fun...

 

on Sep 14, 2013

The head of the software department for which I worked once required all software engineers to change our passwords. If we did not, she would forcibly change our password to "somethinglongandobnoxious".

on Sep 14, 2013

Wow! And I have trouble with just my one. Not happenin'. lol

on Sep 15, 2013

Well it is either Jd3jdn204$03kcmJDjdi2,zld or you use your thumbprint?

on Sep 15, 2013

My favourite is the weekly "we disabled your account because someone from china tried to guess your password" e-mail from paypal or google.

 

I'ma just throw this out there, but wouldn't it make more sense to change my account name instead?

on Sep 15, 2013

sounds like my hotmail account.Try to log in too many times in an hour and get locked out.Then, go to hotmail site,log in, never works, reset password, never works,have them send a text to phone with a code, get code, log in, reset password, go to mail.spend an hour waiting for pages to load. No sweat.

 

Thanks for the laugh Doc.

on Sep 15, 2013

haha good one... i came this far that i use a excel sheet on a portable usb drive for my passwords 
that Excel sheet has notes how a password has to look like like you described 8 letters one numeric and capital included no spaces and no extra signs like "*|#whatever 
I have about four sites i visit where the password needs to be changed every 2 weeks... This can be very annoying, but it also does make you feel protected... i know a single site that does all the above but uses an authentificator aswell.The changing process isnt that bad what i hate is sitting and waiting for the email to arrive in your mailbox. This sometimes takes ages for whatever reason.

on Sep 15, 2013

RedneckDude

Doc, that was funny as hell! I didn't know you did stand up.

 

on Sep 15, 2013

RedneckDude
Doc, that was funny as hell! I didn't know you did stand up.

You didn't?

...

on Sep 15, 2013



Quoting RedneckDude, reply 3Doc, that was funny as hell! I didn't know you did stand up.

You didn't?

...

For shame! 

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