[SOLVED] Complexity rules for AMD BIOS password? Why? (Moved)

Thank you, @Kieran_Levin, @Matt_Hartley, and the framework team. Assured once again that made the right choice with buying Framework Laptop!

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Absolutely great work, thanks, @Kieran_Levin @Matt_Hartley

This is the best customer support experience I’ve had ever since privately owning a 2007 HP Business Notebook that came with a Business support program where they eventually sent me a contractor technician to install a new mainboard for me into my home when it broke!

No need for that with FW though :smiley: The new password rules work great for me.

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Love seeing this, indeed all complexity requirements are gone (and I tested a previously used password and it let me set it). The minimum length of 8 is reasonable (although, if I remember correctly, previous versions did not have it, so I am wondering whether this is where the bios reset issues are coming from – luckily my password was longer than 8 and, for me, the upgrade went completely smoothly).

Still not sure where the maximum length of 64 is coming from, I really do hope that this is just arbitrary and not because they store the plaintext somewhere…

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Excellent. Installed smoothly, complexity requirements are not there anymore. I hope it won’t ask for a reset on May 7th :slight_smile:

Speedy turnaround for a firmware fix; thank you very much, Framework!

It is also comforting to see that you are hiring the firmware expertise :+1:

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I’m seeing this behavior on framework 13 amd version

Thinking back on this we should have made the max length longer. But we had to get work done from our bios vendor to increase it from the previous max of something terribly low like 16 characters.

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Yeah, it was 10 :smiley: Thank you for these improvements, it really helped a lot.

General query.

Is this just an AMD issue, I haven’t and don’t want to even try on my 11th Gen ?

Just AMD. Solved with bios 03.05. Maybe title can be changed to add “(AMD)” and this topic can be marked as solved?

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Works like a charm with 3.05. Thanks, Framework team for addressing this!

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