Truncate Charles Schwab Password at 8 (eight) characters for Quicken 2007 H&B Password Vault

Posted by bsapen on January 2, 2007, 4:35 pm

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I believe the problem is with Quicken 2007. I tried to enter a new
password into my password vault and the dialog box where I'm typing my
password stops at 10 characters.

Bryan

Porter Smith wrote:

> >> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> SNIP>

> >>

> >> And since the password database is encrypted, there is no way to know

> >> if any are "illegal".

> >>

> >

> > Beg to differ. Even if passwords in database encrypted, software

> > validating passwords entered in login screen can check on compliance

> > of the entered password with new standards before even getting the

> > password in the database.

> >

> My point was that if you have database of encrypted passwords, there is no

> way of determining which of them are now illegal so the owners can be

> notified. As you mentioned you have to trap them on the fly as the users

> enter them.

Posted by John Pollard on January 2, 2007, 7:35 pm

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Porter Smith wrote:

> @attbi_s21:

> > But my interpretation of the cause of the problem - and the

> > solution - is different than yours. It is the financial

> > institution's responsibility to supply Intuit with their

> > password requirements; and it does not seem reasonable to expect

> > Quicken to carry "grandfathered" exceptions to those

> > requirements. If an fi elects to allow some users to have 6

> > character passwords, while requiring other users to have 8

> > character passwords, they should not tell Intuit/Quicken that

> > they require 8 character passwords.

> >

> Absolutely. I had a nice chat with E*TRADE's tech folks about this. It

> turns out that when they bought out HarrisDirect, they were not told of

> these grandfathered short passwords, because HarrisDirect wasn't told

> when they bought out CSFBdirect which hadn't been told when they bought

> out dljDirect which allowed short passwords when I set up my account in

> 1996.

> And since the password database is encrypted, there is no way to know if

> any are "illegal".

Are you now able to enter your password and logon to E*TRADE?

Intuit indicates that this should not be a problem; that E*TRADE
accepts passwords from 1 to 32 characters in length ... and that
Quicken recognizes the same criteria for E*TRADE.

Posted by John Pollard on January 2, 2007, 7:36 pm

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Porter Smith wrote:

> @attbi_s21:

> > But my interpretation of the cause of the problem - and the

> > solution - is different than yours. It is the financial

> > institution's responsibility to supply Intuit with their

> > password requirements; and it does not seem reasonable to expect

> > Quicken to carry "grandfathered" exceptions to those

> > requirements. If an fi elects to allow some users to have 6

> > character passwords, while requiring other users to have 8

> > character passwords, they should not tell Intuit/Quicken that

> > they require 8 character passwords.

> >

> Absolutely. I had a nice chat with E*TRADE's tech folks about this. It

> turns out that when they bought out HarrisDirect, they were not told of

> these grandfathered short passwords, because HarrisDirect wasn't told

> when they bought out CSFBdirect which hadn't been told when they bought

> out dljDirect which allowed short passwords when I set up my account in

> 1996.

> And since the password database is encrypted, there is no way to know if

> any are "illegal".