I’ve once had a user who managed to add a second keyboard layout by accident and switch to it on login. I found out when I reset his password and it still didn’t work on the laptop of the users even if I typed it in myself.
Yeah, this. There are sites for some maddening reason that don’t bother to tell you it’s time to change your password, they just force you to reset it without telling you why. Gotta be some kind of lazy shortcut to do it this way and not prompt the user that a password change is required.
Maybe for some. Government sites that I use do this deliberately (not accept your current password) to make you change it. Pretty frustrating the first few times it happened, but now I know that when this happens it’s because of a password change requirement. It’s been years and they still haven’t just made a “time to change” prompt.
Brutal truth: You entered it wrong that many times.
Yes, really.
No, I know: It’s crazy.
Did you have capslock on?
Edit: lol, I get the angry downvotes but I promise you this happens all the time
I’ve once had a user who managed to add a second keyboard layout by accident and switch to it on login. I found out when I reset his password and it still didn’t work on the laptop of the users even if I typed it in myself.
That or you just being obligated to change your password.
Yeah, this. There are sites for some maddening reason that don’t bother to tell you it’s time to change your password, they just force you to reset it without telling you why. Gotta be some kind of lazy shortcut to do it this way and not prompt the user that a password change is required.
Maybe it was just time, maybe your password got scrambled because your account was compromised: They’ll never tell!
Maybe for some. Government sites that I use do this deliberately (not accept your current password) to make you change it. Pretty frustrating the first few times it happened, but now I know that when this happens it’s because of a password change requirement. It’s been years and they still haven’t just made a “time to change” prompt.
It’s pretty common in general but at least some of them actually do you the courtesy of letting you know.