[GTALUG] Linux and on line banking?

[Alex Kink]

> A TD agent on a previous call had told me that any alphabetic characters in the password  MUST BE ALL CAPITAL LETTERS (NO LOWER CASE).

Haha, what?! The agent was either trolling you or they were completely incompetent. Combination of any ASCII characters has worked with them (looking through my 12 year history of randomly generated passwords for Easyweb in my password manager).

Anyway, she is using text based browsers, so Firefox is a no go.

> On Oct 18, 2024, at 09:26, Steve Petrie via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello Karen,
> I just tested logging in to my www.td.com Easyweb account. Had no problem getting logged in.
> The TD website offered me a choice of receiving the SECURITY CODE via phone call or text message. I chose PHONE CALL because I have no texting service.
> I receive the automated phone call on my Bell Canada Fibe land line phone and the synthesized voice read out the 8-digi security code twice.
> On the first call from the voice synthesizer, I could not decipher the pronunciation of the first digit of the code spoken.
> So, I simply requested another phone call, which call provided a more comprehensible readout of the new 8-digit security code.
> I logged in to Easyweb using my 16 digit TD Access Card number and 8-character alphanumeric password
> A TD agent on a previous call had told me that any alphabetic characters in the password  MUST BE ALL CAPITAL LETTERS (NO LOWER CASE).
> I'm using Firefox Browser Extended Support Release 91.13.0esr (64-bit) on Debian 11 linux.
> Pastes from command line:
> ...
> user at debian:~$ lsb_release -a
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID:    Debian
> Description:    Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
> Release:    11
> Codename:    bullseye
> user at debian:~$ 
> ...
> user at debian:~$ lsb_release -a
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID:    Debian
> Description:    Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
> Release:    11
> Codename:    bullseye
> user at debian:~$ uname -srm
> Linux 5.10.0-20-amd64 x86_64
> user at debian:~$ 
> ...
> Hope this helps.
> Steve Petrie
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [GTALUG] Linux and on line banking? Date: 2024-10-17 16:39 From: Karen Lewellen via talk <talk at gtalug.org> To: talk at gtalug.org 
> Hi folks,
> Anyone using Linux successfully to access their on line bank account?
> If so, where?
> TD  is not a prospect, so may be opening another account where I can manage a few things this way, if inclusive of course.
> Happy fall,
> Karen
> 
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