RE: Password Validation

["Allen, Stuart" <sallen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I know its not the best solution, but i don't want to use these sys values
to restrict people.
There is currently a fairly free reign over passwords, so long as they're
over 6 letters; and i think i'd get shot by angry users if i tried to force
everyone to use non-repeating, non-adjacent,non-vowel, alphanumeric
passwords with digits in!
Those that wouldn't attack me would be completely mystified by the concept,
ergo more work for me.
I just want to disallow the mega-obvious passwords.

Stuart

-----Original Message-----
From: Graap, Ken [mailto:keg@exchange.gasco.com]
Sent: 14 June 1999 17:49
To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
Cc: 'sallen@fellowes.com'
Subject: RE: Password Validation


>I want to implement a simple password validation program to disallow
>passwords such as "password", the company name, etc. 

Sturat - 

You can do quite a bit without having to implement a password validation
program at all....

Have you looked at the following system values closely?

 
With all this functionality I would think that most shops could get by quite
nicely without having to validate passwords via an exit program.
          

Kenneth
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