Re: Password management

Well we just went to a new password policy, must be at least 6 characters
long, must contain upper and lower case, must contain numerals and or
special characters, along with they must change there passwords every 180
days....... you can see my dilima

Thanks,
Scott Reece
Notes Admin / Systems Analyst
City of Bend
sreece@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Office - 541-388-4426
Pager - 541-318-7680

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from the support of a cause we believe to be just"  Abraham Lincoln




                                                                       
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Password policy? What's that? About a year and a half ago our CEO (former
VP of IT) mandated the new policy. No password expiration at all and we
couldn't require "complex" passwords. So I'm using my Level 3 password
quality scale with minimum of 6 characters.

When I register a user I create an ID in the address book (eases client
installs), mail file (has to be there for DWA encryption/signing), and on
a mapped drive to a subfolder on my mail server's data directory.

Chris Whisonant
Comporium
Senior Mid-Range Systems Administrator
IBM eServer Certified Systems Expert - iSeries Technical Solutions V5R2
IBM Certified System Administrator - Lotus Notes and Domino 6/6.5
803.326.7270 | 803.326.6142 fax
http://cwhisonant.blogspot.com/

domino400-bounces+chris.whisonant=comporium.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on
05/17/2005 12:52:07 PM:

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> I just wanted to ask how everyone else deals with passwords and user
ID's.
> Do you force your users to change passwords? and if so do you also
require
> them to carry there ID file on a floppy, and make sure that they
remember
> everytime they change there password they need to copy the ID file to
the
> floppy again? Maybe I am completely off base here but I don't see why if
I
> attach a user ID to a person document that the password doesn't change
on
> the ID file in the person document, and follow the user to say a new
> machine, or a clean install of Lotus. What are the rest of you doing to
get
> around this? What happens if the user doesn't copy there ID file to a
> floppy and the machine dies? they are just dead in the water? not cool!
I
> can accept (not that I agree) not being able to change a users password,
> but I cant agree that the passwords don't follow the user. Any help,
> suggestions would be great.
>
> Thanks,
> Scott Reece
> Notes Admin / Systems Analyst
> City of Bend
> sreece@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Office - 541-388-4426
> Pager - 541-318-7680
>
> "The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us
> from the support of a cause we believe to be just"  Abraham Lincoln
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