Re: Password Complexity

From: Shenan Stanley (news_helper_at_hushmail.com)
Date: 07/28/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 13:36:43 -0500

Steve wrote:
> This is from:
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=821425

Shenan Stanley wrote:
> I realize what is SUPPOSED to be true.. But I also know what works
> on the domains I administer with complexity turned on. Maybe it is
> not supposed to work, but give it a shot, you might be surprised.

N/M - reread.. I guess it *is* supposed to work..

must contain at least three of the following four
character groups:

English uppercase characters (A through Z)
English lowercase characters (a through z)
Numerals (0 through 9)
Non-alphabetic characters (such as !, $, #, %)

Since it does contain 3 of the 4.. Just always seemed weird as we were
always spouting "mixed case is good" in these things. I guess simplifying
the facts for users perhaps got mangled. hah 

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