Re: mimic NT password creation

From: Wes Henderson (wes1024_at_hotmail.com.nospam)
Date: 03/30/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 10:55:11 -0600

Bryan,

Out-of-the-box NT doesn't have any special password requirements. However
if you were to enable "Strong Password Filtering" you'd have the
requirements that are detailed here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;161990 

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"Bryan Ax" <bax@kleinbuendel.com> wrote in message
news:7aa793c0.0403290836.361f8133@posting.google.com...
> Posted this several days ago, no responses. Trying again...
>
> Anyone know of a .NET utility that can mimic NT password creation,
> obeying certain complexity rules like:
>
> 1. Password can't contain any part of email address
> 2. Password can't contain any part of username
> 3. Password must have 3 of 4 (letter, number, special character, UCASE
> character)
>
> We have one written in a C++ COM Component, but want something native
> to the .NET Framework (C# preferably). Hoping to avoid re-writing.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Bryan