Choose a less commonly used password

[Redguard]

One friend of me wants to create an account, but he gets this message. He want to use his password and not a different one (he cant rremember different passwords for each website, so he uses his one password)
His pasword is meeting the password requierements, it means the password is at least 8 signs, contains numbers etc... but steam doest let his password because it is too "common". He had not problems on other websites for it

[Cathulhu]

That's a terrible idea. Seriously. And the password must be rather bad if Valve outright refuses to accept it.

[enxch]

Sorry bub. You gotta make a new password. Just write it down somewhere so you don't forget.

[Redguard]

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

That's a terrible idea. Seriously. And the password must be rather bad if Valve outright refuses to accept it.

His password is reliable. He always used it and never had problems

[Phantom]

Originally posted by Redguard:

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

That's a terrible idea. Seriously. And the password must be rather bad if Valve outright refuses to accept it.

His password is reliable. He always used it and never had problems

Let him use a different password other than the one used in other places.

[Redguard]

Originally posted by 999999999:

Security 101: Don't use the same password for various logins.

I dont create new account, it is different person with different pc

[Redguard]

Originally posted by Robin3sk:

Originally posted by Redguard:

His password is reliable. He always used it and never had problems

Let him use a different password other than the one used in other places.

:yinyangflip:

Its weird, because he wants to have his password and not a new one

[Phantom]

Originally posted by Redguard:

Originally posted by Robin3sk:

Let him use a different password other than the one used in other places.

Its weird, because he wants to have his password and not a new one

That's not recommended at all.

[Redguard]

Originally posted by Robin3sk:

Originally posted by Redguard:

Its weird, because he wants to have his password and not a new one

That's not recommended at all.

:yinyangflip:

Who the ♥♥♥♥ are you to not recommend someone if you are not asked to?

[Cassidy]

Meeting the requirements, you say... let me guess, something like Password12345?

Using the same passwords for different sites is a bad idea because if one site gets breached, you have to change your passwords on every website where the same password is used, or you risk getting your accounts hijacked. Especially if they are linked to the same email... which uses the same password.

[Phantom]

Originally posted by Redguard:

Originally posted by Robin3sk:

That's not recommended at all.

Who the ♥♥♥♥ are you to not recommend someone if you are not asked to?

A person not vacuous enough to use the same password on all sites.

[Brujeira]

Originally posted by Redguard:

Originally posted by Robin3sk:

That's not recommended at all.

:yinyangflip:

Who the ♥♥♥♥ are you to not recommend someone if you are not asked to?

We're people who know security. Tell your friend to quit using the same password everywhere as he's asking for trouble and he WILL have issues sooner or later. If he can't remember more than one password at a time then tell him to use a password manager app to remember them for him. Hell, tell him to use the app to make his passwords too if he's having that much difficulty coming up with a unique password.

[Si-Fi]

Originally posted by Redguard:

Originally posted by Robin3sk:

That's not recommended at all.

:yinyangflip:

Who the ♥♥♥♥ are you to not recommend someone if you are not asked to?

That would be taking it a bit too far.

Nobody is neither recommending or suggesting. It is merely a common courtesy to be sure everything is differerent across every and all accounts you have so based on our experiences, whether it has happened or not, your friend will be grateful that he did use a different password since once his account is compromised, he'll blame you.

Hence we are encouraging you to tell your friend to move on and use a new password.

[Teksura]

Originally posted by Redguard:

Originally posted by Robin3sk:

That's not recommended at all.

:yinyangflip:

Who the ♥♥♥♥ are you to not recommend someone if you are not asked to?

You literally made a thread asking about this. You're just not getting the answer you wanted.

[BossGalaga]

Originally posted by Redguard:

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

That's a terrible idea. Seriously. And the password must be rather bad if Valve outright refuses to accept it.

His password is reliable. He always used it and never had problems

That means if that password gets compromised then everything he uses it for will be "reliably" compromised.

Try three random words, capitalize the words, 2 random numbers, 2 symbols.

[Teksura]

Originally posted by BossGalaga:

Originally posted by Redguard:

His password is reliable. He always used it and never had problems

That means if that password gets compromised then everything he uses it for will be "reliably" compromised.

Try three random words, capitalize the words, 2 random numbers, 2 symbols.

I like making it a phrase that includes the word "to", "too", or "for". 4-Obvious-Reasons!

The number of variants are near-limitless, but it's super easy to remember.