Re: password glitches

[Dan Brosemer <odin@cleannorth.org>]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 10:42:56PM +0000, Don McGorman wrote:
>    I could not change my initial password a few weeks ago and Dan had to
>    log on as some kind of super-user to fix.  I believe that my initial
>    password was itself 'illegal' (too short,  only four charaters) so,
>    while I could connect to the network with it, the password change
>    program refused to accept it.
>    
>    I ended up with a new six character password that begins with a
>    number, ends with a number.

The password she has now is explicitly set to be legal, however.  But
remember that the system returns the (very silly) error of "old password not
valid"  if the new password doesn't meet the password requirements.

I _believe_ without checking that the requirements are:

min 6 characters (might be 7)
and two of:
  1.  Letters
  2.  Numbers
  3.  Other characters like $£"^%(*

The password cannot be more than 75% of any one of those 3 classes, either.

-Dan

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