Account management

@RCV wrote: The option to remove the password security for QuickBooks Desktop is unavailable. This protects your critical data such as your Social Security Number, Company EIN, Bank Information (Routing Number, Account Number), or Vendor Tax ID.

"Critical Data" - What's critical about it? And, protect it from what, exactly?

"Your Social Security Number" - You're addressing this to an Admin/Owner. Why would the owner enter their SSN into QuickBooks?

"Company EIN" - An EIN is not private. It's public. It's printed on every W-2 and 1099 a company hands out. On every W-9 they fill out. On every corporate tax filing. For example, here's a link to Intuit's corporate tax filings: https://investors.intuit.com/financials/annual-reports/default.aspx   Each includes Intuit's EIN.

Which is:

See, that wasn't so scary.

"Bank Information (Routing Number, Account Number)" - This borders on comical. You do realize that every time you write a check you give away your bank account number, right? It's right there, printed on the face of the check for everyone to see, take pictures of for posterity, write down, share among friends, and so forth. There are no laws against any of that. There is nothing private about a bank account number.

@RCV wrote: However, you can log into QuickBooks without having to enter a username and password every time.  For the steps and details, please refer to this article: Stay logged in to QuickBooks company file (sign in without entering your password).

Again, this is abjectly comical:

On one hand, Intuit's stance here is: "We must force you to have a password, because we're required to by law (which is false), in order to protect information you have entered into your company file. From some external threat we won't identify. We are so concerned for you, in fact, that not just any inept password can be used. No, it must follow our super-effective rules for security and you must change it every 90 days. And then you can't change it back to the one you are used to, because that would be wrong."

But on the other hand, you also say: "We have this great feature that lets you log into your company file(s) with our super-important-to-have password and then reopen the file without using the password. For three months! That's right, when you use this feature you only have to use your password four times per year! All the other times, you or anyone using your computer can just open the file with no need to enter a pesky password at all! Because, you know, that's a pain to do. However, don't lose your password, because it's still of paramount importance that you use it - four times a year. This keeps your critical data secure!"

"Oh, and also note that we will force you to change your super-important and super-secure password according to our rules. For example "password1" is totally unacceptable but "Password1" is very secure and acceptable (really, try it!).

"Also, note that once you change your password, you can't change it back. Again, we are saving you from yourself, since obviously making you change the password we forced you to set up is very important. Except that we only track 4 or 5 previous passwords in the file and so, if you change it 5 times in a row, which only takes a minute or two, you can change it right back to your old super-secure password! And then not use it again for three months! We aim to please."

Bonkers.