I know, the lack of capitals is a bit strange, but, you may enter 63 characters of letters, numbers and the 5 specials characters, should be plenty strong IMNSHO.
On 24 jul. 2012, at 00:03, Kevin Kettner wrote: > Does anyone know if IBM is ever going to expand the character set > accepted for TSM passwords? I was hoping that would happen in TSM 6.3, > but apparently it still has the same password rules as it has for as > long as I can remember: > > http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6r3/topic/com.ibm.itsm.client.doc/r_opt_password.html > >> A--Z >> Any letter, A through Z, uppercase or lowercase >> 0--9 >> Any number, 0 through 9 >> + >> Plus >> . >> Period >> _ >> Underscore >> - >> Hyphen >> & >> Ampersand >> > > The password policy at our university is this: > > * Are at least eight alphanumeric characters long > * Contain at least three of the following four categories: > o upper case characters (e.g., A-Z) > o lower case characters (e.g., a-z) > o Digits (e.g., 0-9) > o Special characters ( e.g., !@#$%^&*()_+|~-=\`{}[]:";'<>?,./) > > TSM doesn't meet that standard and it seems a little silly as that seems > to be the industry standard for secure passwords. > > And yes, I am aware that special characters do not actually improve > password security that much, but... > > http://xkcd.com/936/ -- Met vriendelijke groeten/Kind Regards, Remco Post [email protected] +31 6 248 21 622
