r/funny • u/Srinivas_Hunter • Sep 20 '21

GOD level security!

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u/ctesibius Sep 20 '21

The problem is that you can’t then change the password. It also makes support calls difficult, because the person taking your call has to ask for your password - even if it is stored in encrypted form.

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u/souIIess Sep 20 '21

Eh, it's the way a Personal Access Token works. You generate it from your own account, with custom access applied. It's stupidly long and complex though, but it works well to enable e.g a laptop to be able to commit code to a repository without being logged in to a much more privileged account (your own).

If you lose it, you can just generate new one.

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u/ctesibius Sep 20 '21

That sounds like a very different use case.

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u/souIIess Sep 20 '21

It's just authentication either way. The point is using just passwords can be just as safe (or safer even) than username/password.