• rolaulten@startrek.website
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    1 year ago

    It’s not uncommon for the password manager to not be on the same system as where the password is being entered - hence a human needs to type. For example: consumer electronics with their own dinky little screens. Smart TVs/game systems and servers where remote access is not possible (or copy/paste does not work by design).

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      1 year ago

      Oh yeah that makes perfect sense; I just hadn’t thought of it because those scenarios haven’t applied to me for a bit. One solution would be to generate readable passwords like discernible sentences. Longer in most cases so more entropy, and less chance to confuse characters.

      Some password managers provide this as an option, though some authN systems require special characters because they think it improves security.

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      1 year ago

      Or if you have to do business with a dinosaur company that won’t let you paste in the PW field.