On Dienstag, 24. April 2007 16:00 Charles Marcus wrote:
> I force my users to use strong passwords - 15 characters, no
> dictionary words, must contain letters, numbers and special
> characters (at least 4)... they yelled - for about 5 minutes, then
> just accepted it.

And I guess since then there's a lot of Post-It to be found beneath the 
keyboards, right?

I also always set per default strong passwords, only to find that people 
change it to something like "abcd" immediately. If force for 
complicated pwds, people write them up somewhere, which doesn't really 
improve security.

mfg zmi
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