Samuel Sieb:
> 3 retries is the usual thing.
Garry T. Williams:
But for choosing a new password? Please. What on earth does that
accomplish?
My guess is a simple failure count, with it not caring what kind of
failure there was. If you've failed to type it in three times in a
row, probably there's something that you need to fix, so that you don't
end up with an unusable login.
Ignoring your particular case, it may stop a bad keyboard, or a typist
who needs to type slower to accurately enter their password.
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