Change Password form does not support clipboard copy / paste

[Blackgator]

Please PistonHeads, please enhance the 'Chanmge Password' form to allow copy / paste.

[SamR380]

I may be wrong, but I think this is a 'feature' not a 'fault'. I assume the idea is to stop you putting the same (potentially wrong) password in the 'confirm password' box. If you type your new password both times you're unlikely to get it wrong both times, at least in the same way.

[Blackgator]

Sorry SamR380, that is just plain wrong. Out of 100+ websites whose login details I store in my password wallet, only 1 does not offer this facility - PistonHeads. I know this because one of the features of my password wallet is to generate a cryptographically secure random generated password (currently 15 characters, but it could be as long as I choose) that I have painstakingly used to update my details on all the other websites.

[Fast and Spurious]

SamR380 said:

I may be wrong, but I think this is a 'feature' not a 'fault'. I assume the idea is to stop you putting the same (potentially wrong) password in the 'confirm password' box. If you type your new password both times you're unlikely to get it wrong both times, at least in the same way.

Absolutely correct.

[bitchstewie]

SamR380 said:

I may be wrong, but I think this is a 'feature' not a 'fault'. I assume the idea is to stop you putting the same (potentially wrong) password in the 'confirm password' box. If you type your new password both times you're unlikely to get it wrong both times, at least in the same way.

Some websites disallow it because "mumble mumble security".

It was daft years ago and it's more daft now

https://www.troyhunt.com/the-cobra-effect-that-is-...