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smallcheese
smallcheese
February 4, 2025
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Community password 62 character maximum limit

  • February 4, 2025
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Seems kinda funny to me that the password manager I use ubiquitously to create 100 character password only allows me to create a 62 character password for the community forum (and doesn't signal that in it's password creation hint popover).

Clearly this is an active choice by someone, so I'd be interested in hearing from 1Password themselves why that choice felt like a good idea.

I spend a lot of time battling sites that:

  • don't publish their password restrictions at all;
  • allow you to create a password, but the login box then doesn't permit that number of characters;
  • do publish password restrictions, but the restrictions don't match reality
  • only allow super short passwords

It would be nice not to add 1Password themselves to that list of 'troublesome' websites :-)

On the upside, this WYSIWYG editor is delightful.

    Best answer by 1Password_Community

    Thanks to everyone who reached out with feedback regarding password complexity and criteria and sharing valuable feedback as we’ve launched our new platform!

    The team has worked quickly to address some of these requests and we’re rolling out the following updates around account passwords later today:

    • The maximum password length will be updated to 125 characters.

     

    Criteria for password will be simplified as follows:

    • A minimum length of 15 characters
    • Usernames should not be part of your password
    • These criteria will be displayed to users creating a new password

     

    We’ve consulted with the 1Password security team to make sure these requirements align with industry best practices.

    Keep sharing your valuable feedback. We really appreciate it!

    2 replies

    AJCxZ0
    AJCxZ0
    February 5, 2025

    Seconded. Not just a poor experience for 1Password, but for any forum. Problems include

    • going against current best practices for passwords with mostly arbitrary constraints,
    • providing that list of as a modal only visible while in the input field,
    • failing to include the one most important constraint which limits the strength, i.e. maximum length,
    • having a maximum length of only 64 characters (worse than the old forum),
    • failing to set a maximum size on the input field,
    • giving an annoyingly unhelpful error, "Password is too long",
    • failing to recognise an accepted new password (requiring a second password reset), and
    • being conspicuously unaware of your audience.

     

    Since there appear to be other threads addressing other problems with the new forum, I'll not mention the various other problems with just the password reset and sign in process here.

     

      AJCxZ0
      AJCxZ0
      February 5, 2025

      When I edited my post and added a newline after the unordered list, the forum gave an error,

      Content Not Published
      Your post contains invalid HTML. Remove the following invalid tags before publishing: a, a (data-airgap-id), li-image

      Not only is the error false, but appears to be close to nonsense.

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      nukmicah
      January 24, 2026

      See more details in Getting an error message when trying to leave a comment | 1Password Community, I frequently have the issue as well.

      The error message is meaningful, but only if you're a web developer who understands HTML language and you launch web developer tools to inspect the page source. Certainly not something that should be expected of forum users. And if it is expected of forum users, then the editor should give us a way to view and edit the raw HTML to resolve these errors.

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      1Password_CommunityAnswer
      1Password Employee
      February 5, 2025

      Thanks to everyone who reached out with feedback regarding password complexity and criteria and sharing valuable feedback as we’ve launched our new platform!

      The team has worked quickly to address some of these requests and we’re rolling out the following updates around account passwords later today:

      • The maximum password length will be updated to 125 characters.

       

      Criteria for password will be simplified as follows:

      • A minimum length of 15 characters
      • Usernames should not be part of your password
      • These criteria will be displayed to users creating a new password

       

      We’ve consulted with the 1Password security team to make sure these requirements align with industry best practices.

      Keep sharing your valuable feedback. We really appreciate it!

        AJCxZ0
        AJCxZ0
        June 18, 2025

        @1Password_Community, Accepting passwords longer than the 1Password client's ability to generate is excellent, however it still fails to set a maximum size on the input field.

        The fix is trivial: add `maxlength="125"` to the `input` element, i.e.

        <input aria-label="password" aria-describedby="password" name="password" placeholder="Password" data-testid="InputField.RegistrationForm.password" autocomplete="new-password" type="password" id="RegistrationForm-password" class="PasswordField_lia-input-field__BTTE3 styles_form-control__h8E13" maxlength="125">

         

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