Is there a limit to how long or short a password can be?

Question

I don't know if this is in the rules or something that I didn't read, so if this is in the rules somewhere, please tell me.
So I'm talking about the My Account section for a user. Every time I try to change my password from 0_______ (I have to put _ because I can't tell you my password) to just the same password without the 0, it won't let me. Can I only have 8 and above characters?

Comments

sir why do you want a two character password
edit: nevermind, continue as you were

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Thanks HT. I couldn't figure out how to do that lol

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:00000 stonk passcodes = gud passcodes

Answer 1

Yes, you need a password at least eight characters long. I tried to change my password to something lower and the site gave me an error: "Password must be at least 8 characters".

There would be an upper limit as well (computers don't have unlimited memory). I'd guess the limit matches the limit of the bcrypt password hashing algorithm. If that's correct, then a straight answer is tricky to give, because not every "character" takes up the same amount of space in computer memory. The answers to this question explain this more, if you can keep up with its terminology.

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Okay. Thanks.