RE: Password start with digit - another question

[Dennis <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, but the legal folks can sit back and say, "We have done all we can to protect our users - we are not liable."  But the sad fact is that it is they who drove the security rules to such extremes that the individual had no choice!
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Dennis
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 "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
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"Musselman, Paul" <pmusselman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> *Sigh*
>
> Unfortunately, by the time a user gets done creating a password with
> upper- and lower-case letters, numerals, and special characters, the
> only place the password is saved is on a Yellow Sticky that gets
> mounted on the side of the user's monitor!  It's even more of a problem
> when the password changes every "n" days!  
>
> It can be even worse if all of the 'password security' features are
> activated- can't have 2 numerals next to each other.  Can't use the a
> character in the same position it had in the previous password.  
>
> Give me a word (yes, a dictionary word) and a number tacked on the back
> end--  how much -less- secure is that than a 'license plate number'
> password stuck on the side of the monitor??  Especially when you
> consider that most systems will disable the profile (and maybe the
> device) after 3 wrong guesses.
>
> Paul E Musselman
> PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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