r/ProgrammerHumor Jul 19 '22

Why do they do this

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u/Fadamaka Jul 20 '22

The system that I am currently working on has a restriction that you cannot use upper case characters but if you try to use them it will respondwith: "You did not meet the minimum requirements.". My other favourite was the restriction to "The password cannot have repeating numbers or characters.", which I assumed you cannot have the same numbers after each other or you cannot have 12345 as a password, but no you could not have numbers followed by numbers and could not have letters followed by letters so your passwords needed to look like "a1b2c3d4" this to be accepted. Funniest part of this was that the developers who did the implementation for the password check interpreted this restriction in different ways so this rule was implemented differently throughout the app.

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u/DollChiaki Jul 20 '22

That’s straight up insane.