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> That seems the strangest of them all: "If the login fails, try stripping a character off the end and see if that matches".

Not really.

(The other ones aren't strange either, but I admit I have never heard of this practice.)

If you have the password stored in Notepad and there's a space behind it. Or you already have a space behind it, and then entered it. Or it is a DOS document you copy/paste from. Quite common. But I suppose the other 2 are more common.



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