That is the part I don't get. Based upon his/her request the installer shouldn't even need to know the password. It should just install with the logged in credentials. And if it chokes on a complex password during install maybe because of a service it installs it will choke afterwards too.
Unless he/she is asking for the password to remain 'simple' after the install.....Just because I am curious I would love to hear the rest of this story. From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 9:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Thursday Funny Request What I want to know is what kind of application in 2009 "requires" a network password to not be complex to be installed? I'm just glad he's not in the office yet because I would have to rip him to shreds.....yeah you can call me alice. On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 8:14 AM, David Lum <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: A complex password is so easy to create this sentence is one. *Any* properly formatted sentence is an adequately complex "password". People see me enter my password and ask "how do you remember all that?". A 25 character sentence is easier to remember than some bizarre mix of random characters of half the length. Even 17 December 2009 is a complex password - does SQL not allow spaces in passwords? You security experts, is "Sr2FDeT2M0hProYMs" a more complex password than "There once was a man from Nantucket."? The latter is a 35 character password that I'm sure most of you could remember. David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 5:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Thursday Funny Request A complex password is SOOOO easy to create, just look at what is used whenever you go to a MS training class: p...@ssw0rd, or something along those lines. Even todays date configured correctly meets the password complexity requiremends....17December2009. Sheesh.......now I've quit laughing and am bordering on being pissed off. On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Jon Harris <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Sounds to me like you have some people working as DBA's that should be watched ALL the time to me. Jon On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Sherry Abercrombie <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Got this request from on of our DBA's, I'm waiting to respond until after I stop laughing hysterically: Need domain policy temporarly changed on dbaserver to remove requirment for Windows complex password, so application can be installed and then the policy can be reactivated. -- Sherry Abercrombie "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke -- Sherry Abercrombie "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke Sent from Keller, TX, United States -- Sherry Abercrombie "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke Sent from Keller, TX, United States ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
