Re: Enforcing strong passwords in SQL Server

From: jimmers (jimmers@yandex.ru)
Date: 09/24/02 

From: "jimmers" <jimmers@yandex.ru>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 13:55:42 +0400

One way is to modify sp_password system routine but this is not recommended.
Better solution is to use Windows Authentication only and thus rely on
native
operating system mechanisms for passwords management.

Cheers
jimmers

"Abhishek" <abhi_narulkar@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:71e301c263ae$8c1438b0$35ef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA11...
> Hi,
> I need to enforce strong passwords in SQL Server.The
> passwords should be of some minimum length and should
> contain some special characters.This should be checked
> specially for the sa account.The sa account should be
> checked for the blank passwords.
> Can anybody help??
> Thanks
> Abhishek.

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