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[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sometimes it means the page checking the password is following a different ruleset eg. the main page is case sensitive and the change password page isn't. Sometimes it's stuff like the entered password is silently truncated to a fixed number of characters and because of that won't let you log in. Sometimes it's wierd character expansions being passed directly to the password checking routine (& or similar).