For anyone hacking your account right now- you just reduced their search
space by an order of magnitude. ;)
-john
On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Stonelove wrote:
> 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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