Talk about security measures...
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Um. This was fixed eleven years ago... :laugh:
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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Um. This was fixed eleven years ago... :laugh:
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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That was the most helpful thing I've ever seen on a Microsoft site, so I took the time to leave feedback - "Thanks!" :-D
Will Rogers never met me.
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Well, at least it wasn't a repost. ;-) I just caught it out of one of the links from the insider. Just thought it was funny, because who doesn't get annoyed with password rules.
I just wish they would be consistent. It's hard enough remembering passwords at the best of times, but one of my bank-type logins needs at least 8 characters, with a number, but no special characters, another wants 6 chars, including a special, an upper case an a lower case, another needs something totally different. So I have to remember what damn characters I am allowed to use as well as the vague idea what the password might be. Oh, and to make life really fun, my domain hosts email hosting software will accept any length and character combination when you create the account, but limits passwords to 16 characters when you enter it to log in. But doesn't tell you that. Since I typically create new accounts with a Guid for the password (it encourages people to change it PDQ) it accepts it for account creation, but nobody can log in ... And I forget this 9 times out of ten :mad:
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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I just wish they would be consistent. It's hard enough remembering passwords at the best of times, but one of my bank-type logins needs at least 8 characters, with a number, but no special characters, another wants 6 chars, including a special, an upper case an a lower case, another needs something totally different. So I have to remember what damn characters I am allowed to use as well as the vague idea what the password might be. Oh, and to make life really fun, my domain hosts email hosting software will accept any length and character combination when you create the account, but limits passwords to 16 characters when you enter it to log in. But doesn't tell you that. Since I typically create new accounts with a Guid for the password (it encourages people to change it PDQ) it accepts it for account creation, but nobody can log in ... And I forget this 9 times out of ten :mad:
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
Oh, and don't forget you can't use the last 6 passwords or variations thereof. I say we just skip passwords and use retinal scanners.
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I just wish they would be consistent. It's hard enough remembering passwords at the best of times, but one of my bank-type logins needs at least 8 characters, with a number, but no special characters, another wants 6 chars, including a special, an upper case an a lower case, another needs something totally different. So I have to remember what damn characters I am allowed to use as well as the vague idea what the password might be. Oh, and to make life really fun, my domain hosts email hosting software will accept any length and character combination when you create the account, but limits passwords to 16 characters when you enter it to log in. But doesn't tell you that. Since I typically create new accounts with a Guid for the password (it encourages people to change it PDQ) it accepts it for account creation, but nobody can log in ... And I forget this 9 times out of ten :mad:
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
At least you know what the requirements are. At work the best I get is something along the lines of "your password does not meet complexity or history requirements for this domain". It'd be nice if it would specify which, or at least tell me what complexity requirements I'm supposed to be meeting...
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What I love about this KB:
"Note that the number of required characters changes from 17,145 to 18,770 with the installation of SP1."
Someone actually changed code/application resources somewhere within Windows to raise the number of required characters! :laugh: No one on the Dev team found that strange I guess. -EM
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