Password reset

[jack]

AGAIN I went through the steps to recover my username, reset my password, play twenty questions to discover what the actual requirements on my password are, be unable to set it, discover that the problem is "same as previous password", go back to log in screen and log in.

Is there a reason websites that have a morass of password restrictions don't show them on the LOGIN screen, so you can remember what constraints you had to deform your password to meet? Is it sheer hatred for humanity? Or just incompetence? Or better, why not accept that I don't care about your stupid insecure grasping website and give me a one-time log-in code to my actual email address, rather than forcing me to pretend that because I had to use your site once, it will automatically become my primary email address? I guess that last question answers itself.

There's a reason google is seductive and evil, "evil and repellent" is not a good sell!

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[mathcathy]

It's not just Google. It took me 4 months to persuade hotmail thatmy secondary email address ISN'T the university one that I haven't used for ten years . It suddenly decided it needed me to verify something for its all new security policy and locked my account once a month until I finally guessed the magical combination of requirements which gave me permanent access to my account.

Fortunately that account is nowhere near being my primary account, so it was a nuisance but not a problem.