5-character password?

I went to the Verizon Wireless store. I told an employee that my phone is broken and I would like to buy one. He asked for my cell phone number and I gave it. Then, he asked for a password. I gave it and it was wrong. He said that the password was 5-character. My cell is in my mom's account. I didn't understand what he was talking about. Can anyone help me?

DianaBM23 wrote:
I went to the Verizon Wireless store. I told an employee that my phone is broken and I would like to buy one. He asked for my cell phone number and I gave it. Then, he asked for a password. I gave it and it was wrong. He said that the password was 5-character. My cell is in my mom's account. I didn't understand what he was talking about. Can anyone help me?
ask your mom
there is an account password that is needed to upgrade
it keeps people from upgrading on family accounts without the account holders permissions
in other words its working as intended

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Hi Marcel
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tia
>>>
From: Marcel Cox<[email protected]>
To:novell.support.native-file-access
Date: 03/09/10 12:36
Subject: Re: cifs - 5 character password limit
aemo;2016916 Wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've found that if I add a simple password with more than 5 characters
> in it and I can't authenticate to the netware server via cifs. if the
> password is shorter than 5 characters it works fine, what am I doing
> wrong or is this a limitation to the novell cifs protocol?
>
> the servers are netware 6.5 sp8 edir 8.8.5 and the client is a windows
> xp/windows 2000
>
> tia
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Where to find the router settings: The router's login password is usually on one of the "Administration" pages. The other settings are all found in the "Wireless" or "Wireless Security" section of the router's setup pages, located at 192.168.1.1
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WEP - poor (see note below)
WPA (sometimes called PSK, or WPA with TKIP) - good
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Having spent a few hours yesterday trying to resolve issues via Live Chat (ID 130105-001270 & 130105-002081) and spending more time today - I'm truly at wits end. I consider myself pretty knowledgeable with computers and networking.
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I have seen other posts suggesting the removal of Cisco Connect however, I feel that this is a bandaid solution.
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Thanks for allowing me to "rant".
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And I'm still presented with the problem of connecting via 192.168.1.1. or myrouter.local using IE 8 in which a "page cannot be displayed" message appears. I can log in via Google Chrome however, once I enter the username and password once I'm able to access router without being prompted. The network isn't totally secure.
I have seen other posts where these Cisco routers are having "problems" when using IE. It would seem to me that Cisco would want to rectify this situation. Its not like I'm running a beta operating system that Cisco is not aware of. I'm running an XP system that is totally updated.
I've been running Linksys/Cisco routers for years and have never had these problems. If these "problems" continues I will have no choice but to purchase a router from another company such as Netgear and say goodbye to Cisco.
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