In my opinion? No. On the other hand, overly complex password rules encourage people to write them down on PostIts™, which doesn't tend to improve security.

I've seen some pretty hideous password schemes. One place where I worked required all passwords to be of the form C(VC){2}, where "V" is a vowel (aeiou) and "C" is a consonant (any other letter in the 26 character Roman alphabet). Nothing else, upper case only. This machine was not on the Internet, but still!

emc

"Being forced to write comments actually improves code, because it is easier to fix a crock than to explain it. "
—G. Steele

In reply to Re: 8-character password limit? by swampyankee
in thread 8-character password limit? by jdalbec

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