{"id":7539,"date":"2025-05-09T21:56:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T16:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/?p=7539"},"modified":"2025-05-09T21:56:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T16:26:16","slug":"openapi-site-cant-figure-out-how-to-allow-users-to-change-their-passwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/openapi-site-cant-figure-out-how-to-allow-users-to-change-their-passwords\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI site can&#8217;t figure out how to allow users to change their password&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Changing passwords regularly is a good way to ensure that your accounts are secure. Yes I know about the new <a href=\"https:\/\/auditboard.com\/blog\/nist-password-guidelines\">NIST guidelines on password changing<\/a> but I disagree with it. If you are using a password manager (and you should be) then changing passwords on a regular basis is not a hard thing to do. <\/p>\n<p>In any case, I noticed that the password on a bunch of my accounts had not been changed in a while so was updating them; one of the accounts is on OpenAI that I had created when it had launched but not really used much after that. After logging in I spent a few minutes trying to find the option to change my password but couldn&#8217;t find it, finally had to go to the FAQ&#8217;s to find out <a href=\"https:\/\/help.openai.com\/en\/articles\/4936828-resetting-or-changing-your-chatgpt-password\">how to change the password<\/a> and I saw the following:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-09-at-21-42-21-Resetting-or-Changing-Your-ChatGPT-Password-OpenAI-Help-Center.png\" \/><br \/>\nInstructions on how to reset the password<\/center><\/p>\n<p>How to reset your ChatGPT password<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>    Log out of your account, or open a private\/incognito browser window.<\/li>\n<li>    Go to the ChatGPT home page<\/li>\n<li>    Click Log in.<\/li>\n<li>    Enter your email address and click Continue.<\/li>\n<li>    Select Forgot password? on the password entry screen.<\/li>\n<li>    Follow the instructions in the password reset email you receive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They really don&#8217;t know how to implement a simple change password functionality&#8230; I mean this is not something I expect from a billion dollar company. I have seen this on sites created by startups but never at a large company. Although, if their site is created using their AI code generation then that would kind of explains this. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changing passwords regularly is a good way to ensure that your accounts are secure. Yes I know about the new NIST guidelines on password changing but I disagree with it. If you are using a password manager (and you should be) then changing passwords on a regular basis is not a hard thing to do. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[72,26,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-humor","category-my-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7539"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7545,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7539\/revisions\/7545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}