86
A question about passwords | characters used in them
(programming.dev)
Welcome to the main community in programming.dev! Feel free to post anything relating to programming here!
Cross posting is strongly encouraged in the instance. If you feel your post or another person's post makes sense in another community cross post into it.
Hope you enjoy the instance!
Rules
Follow the wormhole through a path of communities !webdev@programming.dev
Some of the restrictions are there to try and protect users from themselves. Most people don't want to put a space in their password so it's assumed it was a mistake when they do.
Just my general experience, I mean how many passwords from leaked password lists contain spaces? The general understanding of passwords is that they contain no spaces
I'm sure it's a chicken and egg situation then, a few services do allow it but I've never come across someone using it intentionally outside of people doing it specifically because it's uncommon