Kip

What’s wrong with special characters?

Written by Kip on Monday, August 25, 2008 at 2:20 pm (EDT)
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Here is a message I got after logging into a website recently:

** NOTE ** Using a colon (“:”) in your password can create problems when logging in to Banner Self Service. If your password includes a colon, please change it using the PWManager link below.

Protip: If you are designing any kind of login/authentication system and you find that you need to give users a warning similar to this, you are doing something wrong.

On a much more nitpicky side note, why not just make “PWManager” or “using the PWManager” link to PWManager?  To their credit, at least they didn’t say “by clicking the PWManager link below.”

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