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How do you deal with websites that won't let you use >8char or certain characters?

I use this same method, but my method will often generate special characters, and AWS as an example, and several others (apparently following AWS' lead) won't let you use those. (Any punctuation not on the shift-numbers row of USA keyboards are not considered legit for password use)

I still mostly use this system, and given my lucky memory I can memorise the exceptions, but I doubt a vast majority of the population could follow my example.



I basically just have a system for altering the generated passwords based on the specific site requirements. For instance if it requires a max num of chars then I will just chop off the password at that amount. And similar systems for other requirements.




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