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Student Finance England password length

I have an interesting experience with applying for my next years student loan. I was changing my password for my Student Finance England account (What we use for our student loans) and I changed it to a 64 character randomly generated password (just upping my security) which went through fine.

Then when I was applying for my next years loan, I had to re-enter my password at which point I found out the textbox had a max length of 16 characters for some odd reason, I opened Inspect Element, removed the max length and then my password went through fine. Pretty weird.

If you have a password longer than 16 characters, make sure that you manage to type your full password (by removing the textboxes max length in Inspect Element) on the final step before submitting your application.


I have no idea if I can report this to them somehow but either way their web development team clearly overlooked this.

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