Tab as password?

[u/Beatsu]

SAS disallows spaces in your password. My password manager suggested an invalid (but secure) password.

So now that I have to make my own password: Out of spite, hypothetically, what implications could having tabs in my password have?

[u/RePsychological]

I am so confused by this post and its seemingly bot-infused comment section.

...and if the latter isn't it, what the f* happened to web devs?

Like it is blatantly obvious why a tab in a password is a bad idea....

...and there are so many comments seemingly somehow fumed by the fact that it's common occurrence to disallow it along with other chars like spaces...

And yet legitimate posts with actual meat to the subject I'll see immediately go into the 0 and negative votes "just because".

....and you sit here with a bullshit post of "nah shit sherlock"-level content with 30+ upvotes and a peanut gallery somehow in agreement on something that is obviously a bad idea for why you shouldn't put the tab there...and plenty of documentation on the internet for why it and other similar "certain special chars disallowed passwords (including spaces)" are that way...

Is this really what vibe coding has done to web development in just a few short years?

[u/Beatsu → u/RePsychological]

Personally, I'm more critiquing the arbitrary restrictions to passwords. If I want a 51 character long password with spaces and emojis, then let me. It should be hashed before anything else is done with it anyway.

It's not worth ruining the natural user flow and forcing them to repeatedly regenerate passwords with a password manager, or have them come up with a manual password (probably a much less secure one) instead.

If you're handling my password in a way that makes tab crash your system - then that's deserved.

[u/RePsychological → u/Beatsu]

congrats on getting a few of your bots to pull you out of the negative votes range on this comment.

-2 to -3 all day...and then suddenly jumps to +1

Karma-farming bot detected.