From: Laura A. Robinson (laurarobinsonearthlink.net)
Date: Fri Aug 27 2004 - 19:53:48 CDT

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Besides, it's totally unnecessary, as accounts that don't meet complexity
requirements at the time that said requirements are set are *not* disabled
because of such.

Laura

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> From: Matthew.van.Eerdehbinc.com
> [mailto:Matthew.van.Eerdehbinc.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 8:16 PM
> To: pavilesadjoined.com
> Cc: focus-mssecurityfocus.com
> Subject: RE: ADSI question
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> Paul Aviles wrote:
> > Arthur thanks,
> > Well, is for documentation purposes. For audit and documentation
> > purposes it needs to be done. The client is on AD already but if we
> > enable strong password doesn't that mean that all the passwords that
> do
> > not meet the criteria get disabled? That has been my
> experience in the
> > past..
> >
> > Thanks
> > -pa
>
> One possibility is to email the new password requirement to
> the users ahead of time and request that everyone change
> their password to something that meets the requirements
> (unless their password already meets the requirements.) A
> somewhat more risky possibility is to generate a static HTML
> page with some javascript that will run a series of regular
> expression tests on the input. Then they could use this to
> see whether their password meets the requirements. But that
> could be a very bad precedent to set.
>
> Matthew.van.Eerdehbinc.com 805.964.4554 x902
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