Am 26. Feb, 2022 schwätzte Stephen Partington so:

moin moin,

> this is from the steam password FAQ
>
> Use at least 6 characters
> Use a combination of uppercase and lowercase letters.
> Include at least one number within the password
> Do not use a name, a word that could be found in the dictionary, or a
> series of letters as it appears on the keyboard ("qwerty" and "12345" are
> not secure passwords)

My default is long random string with upper, lower, number and special
characters.

> I would also review what characters you are using and consider maximum
> password length. they may have an unpublished limit. Like my company has a
> product that fails when # is used.

I have tried down to 8 characters as that certainly can't be too long if
that's the minimum ( also tried 20, 12, 10 and other lengths ). I have
tried with a single special character and a variety of those. I have tried
short and without special characters.

At this point I should just look for hacked steam accounts and try one of
those passwords :).

I do presume it's generally working for people as valve likely tracks new
account creation and would have noticed if that had been 0 since June.

ciao,

der.hans

> On Sat, Feb 26, 2022 at 4:33 PM der.hans via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> moin moin,
>>
>> the SteamDeck looks great. Valve has done a lot to work with Linux and
>> Free Software even putting out info on how to modify the SteamDeck if you
>> can get one.
>>
>> The first step to get a SteamDeck is to setup an account in order to order
>> one.
>>
>> But, the signon hasn't been working for me.
>>
>> I keep getting "The password you entered is not allowed. Please select a
>> different password, with at least 8 characters."
>>
>> Y'all know I would not default to something less than dozens of
>> characters, so a short password is not the problem.
>>
>> I've tried with reduced special characters, without special characters,
>> with only 8 characters and many, many other things.
>>
>> All the support options for valve presume you have an account, so not way
>> of contacting them. If this is what their customer support is like then
>> they really suck even if they are supporting Free Software.
>>
>> I allowed all the JavaScript, cookies and crap and it still doesn't work.
>> I created a container and installed chromium and it still doesn't work.
>>
>> I'm tired of working for free for Valve, but I'd really like to get a
>> steamdeck for kidling.
>>
>> Has anyone craeted a new account recently and knows the secret to getting
>> their site to work or getting them to actually respond?
>>
>> ciao,
>>
>> der.hans
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