October 23, 2006

Your Thought Your Password Requirements Were Tough

sw-0069 I ran across this on the Microsoft support site:

If you log on to an MIT realm, press CTRL+ALT+DELETE, click Change Password, type your existing MIT password, and then type a new, simple password that does not pass the dictionary check in Kadmind, you may receive the following error message:
Your password must be at least 18770 characters and cannot repeat any of your previous 30689 passwords.

Microsoft Knowledge Base Article #276304 [Microsoft.com]

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One Response to “Your Thought Your Password Requirements Were Tough”

  1. Carmelo Lisciotto Says:

    You need a little black box to reset passwords :)

    Enigma Machine to the 10th!

    Carmelo Lisciotto

    April 11th, 2007 at 1:46 pm

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