Re: (***POSSIBLE SPAM***) Re: [SECURITY] Password Expatriation notification

[Charles Buchholtz <chip+educause () SEAS UPENN EDU>]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 02:03:29PM -0400, Valdis Kletnieks wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:48:35 EDT, Charles Buchholtz said:
>
> > We allow passwords (minimum 9 chars) and pass-phrases (minimum 16
> > chars). 
>
> How do you tell if a 14 character string is a password or a passphrase?

Passwords cannot contain words from our dictionary, or common variants
of words in our dictionary.  ">bZony5PT8" is a good password, and
"Seven white horses!" is a good pass-phrase, but "Seventeen" and
"5even+33n" are not accepted.

--- Chip

Charles H. Buchholtz                    Director of Systems Programming
chip () seas upenn edu            School of Engineering and Applied Science
http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~chip           University of Pennsylvania