The policy i use is to use alphanumeric passwords of no less than 8 chars,
no fone numbers er address or pets names or nothin like that, and have the
password expire every month.
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Hi all,
I'd like to have your opinion and personal experience regarding what policy
to implement when dealing with passwords on a pure Windows Network (Windows
98, Windows NT 4 workstation and servers, Windows NT 2000 professional and
server). The NT domain is based on a NT Server 4 SP5, and the users get
mail from MS Exchange 5.5 SP3.
At my old job, whe had a mix environment of WinNT, Linux and Suns, so the
policy was to have a password of at least 8 characters long, containing
upper and lower case letters, numbers and one of those:
:;().,<>!@#$%^&*-_=+
I just want your opinion as to know if in a pure NT environment, I need to
have something that strict, or I can loosen it up a little and keep the
same strenght.
What is your opinion and what do you use/recommend in that matter?
Thanks!
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Mario Biron, CCA, System Administrator
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