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Comment on Ask HN: Hetzner asking for passport for new account? just me, or everyone?

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It happened to me too, and I was unable to verify myself by any acceptable means due to being based in a country other than that of my passport. Having been redirected somewhere else for the identity verification onboarding, I think the process is outsourced by Hetzner to a firm of security specialists apparently oblivious to edge cases. Nice work if you can get it.

There's some other specific character besides spaces that's also not permitted in passwords. It's a normal printable ascii character but I can't remember what it is any more, and sometimes it's not caught. Let's hope nobody signs up with it by mistake.

If they're geo checking IP to passport, I also would fail.

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