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What ‘Administration Password’ Special Characters can I have?
For security reasons, I like to have a Password’ of over 30 random Characters including Special Characters, numbers & upper & lower case letters.
I try to change my ‘Administration Password’ for my Orbi RBK50, but it rejected the new password & also rejected my old password which I use for a long time. I didn’t have password reset on, so now I can’t get into my orbi without doing a Factory Reset.
Can anyone tell me, the maximin number of Characters I can have & what Special Characters does the Orbi RBK50 accept for the ‘Administration Password’ only?
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Not sure if this applies to Orbi systems:
Something to ask NG support about though...
FURRYe38 wrote:Not sure if this applies to Orbi systems:
I am definitely certain that this does not apply to Orbi systems. At the most, it is a recommendation that a "strong password" should be at least 8 characters long and have at least one of Upper, Lower, Numeric, and Special characters. More than one character from each group is clearly allowed. The question is which special characters are allowed (or conversely, which are not allowed).
This calls out for an experiment.
Ya I use a simpler PW for my needs thus I haven't tried any special characters.
Please let us know what you find out Sir. :smileywink:
CrimpOn wrote:
FURRYe38 wrote:Not sure if this applies to Orbi systems:
I am definitely certain that this does not apply to Orbi systems. At the most, it is a recommendation that a "strong password" should be at least 8 characters long and have at least one of Upper, Lower, Numeric, and Special characters. More than one character from each group is clearly allowed. The question is which special characters are allowed (or conversely, which are not allowed).
This calls out for an experiment.
