Category: Password

Yesterday I had my university password reset. It had been a while, and my Mac informed me that there had been a data leak. Better be safe than sorry, right?

Well, the reset protocol didn’t work, and it was a major ordeal to get help with that on a Sunday, but it got done in the end. I now ‘enjoy’ a macOS-generated high security password.

I discovered this morning that for whatever reason, it hadn’t propagated to my iPhone, despite the iCloud synchronization being turned on. No idea why. So when Outlook asked me to do an Office365 sign-in, I dutifully obliged.

But … the old password did not work. The new password did not work. The iCloud password did not work. My computer’s administrator password did not work ….

Then I had an idea. When attempting to enter the password on the iPhone, of course the input turned to bullets; expected, but there was no ‘show’ option to see that I’d got it right, though it looked right as I typed it. So finally, I typed it into the body of an email, verified it against the Keychain password on my Mac, and copied and pasted it in. Presto!

Apparently the iPhone was either capitalizing or performing some other idiotic ‘correction’ which I could not see!