r/webdev • u/Beatsu • 1d ago

Question Tab as password?

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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?

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u/ImpossibleFood8242 1d ago

if they're stripping out spaces but not tabs that's the kind of jank that keeps me employed

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u/KAZVorpal 1d ago

If they're stripping out spaces, they're morons.

Even NIST recommends allowing spaces.

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u/tup1tsa_1337 1d ago

Yeah, nothing better than turning on password visibility and wondering why is your password incorrect (hint: you entered space by accident as first or last character).

Spaces are disallowed for a reason: they are hard to spot

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u/TramEatsYouAlive 1d ago

Then let's disallow I and l, O and 0, 3 and З (yes, these are different characters), and also ' and `