After years of having no trouble with passwords my web host drove me up the wall a year or so ago when they enforced uber secure passwords. I spent about an hour trying to come up with something that the system would accept and that I had half a chance of remembering. Anything remotely based on a word or combination of words no matter how obscure including using any of the common character substitutions was rejected.
In the end I resorted to opening notepad, randomly mashing the keyboard, saving the file to my desktop and copy/pasting the result into the password field. I've ended up with a password I'll never remember, because I only use it rarely, I can only log into my web hosting from home (because I never know the password when I need it somewhere else) and I've broken the golden rule of never writing down passwords. Total fail and I'd have been better off if they'd just left it as it was.
In the end I resorted to opening notepad, randomly mashing the keyboard, saving the file to my desktop and copy/pasting the result into the password field. I've ended up with a password I'll never remember, because I only use it rarely, I can only log into my web hosting from home (because I never know the password when I need it somewhere else) and I've broken the golden rule of never writing down passwords. Total fail and I'd have been better off if they'd just left it as it was.
