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Maximum password size is arbitarily small
As someone who uses a password manager and recently signed up for a teams account I was frustrated that the generated password from my password manager was "too long". How is this a thing? I've never had a website reject a password for being too long.
I could understand a limit on passwords over 1000 characters or something to avoid a dos attack on the hashing function. The default configuration of my password manager generates 25 character passwords.
If teams is going to be accepted as a modern communication tool it shouldn't have absurd password restrictions.
I couldn't find a better place to report this bug. Please let me know if it is out of place here and should be posted somewhere else.
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https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/admin/misc/password-policy-recommendations?view=o365-worldwide#password-guidelines-for-administrators tyler-picknik If you use the payed version of Teams you will use Azure Active Directory for your accounts and then the maximum length is 256 characters. I Teams free you use a Microsoft Account to sign in (same as Outlook.com) and then the limit is 16 characters.
What is the maximum length of password in Windows 10? (thewindowsclub.com)
Instead of having a long password Microsoft recommends to have a complex password together with MFA for Microsoft Accounts.
How to use two-step verification with your Microsoft account
