Without thinking about it at all I just want to say I should allow every character. It gets hashed in any case, and I don't want to limit people who want to create strong passwords. However, thinking about it more, there are plenty of characters that I have no idea what effect they'd have on things. Foreign characters, ascii symbols, ...
Hi, I want to read the values of Account policy of Windows XP programmatically. Source code in C++ (Will be more specific) would be appreciated. If you have any guidelines then please help me soon. Thanks in Advance ...
I have received the unfortunate requirement of building a page that displays a new password to the authenticated user. I have unsuccessfully protested this requirement as a generally bad idea, but I think the jury is still out so perhaps there are arguments against displaying a new password that I haven't tried yet. Do you have any sugge...
Hello all, A user is accessing a restricted web application with JAAS (on Glassfish 2.1). LDAPRealm is used, and authentication is successfully performed from LDAP. A password policy should be installed for the users, so that they are forced to change passwords, have passwords of certain complexity/length, password failures and last N p...
Hi folks, I'm using asp.nbet membership which very handily gives you the choice of enforcing a min password length and the minimum numeric characters. Can you define others like there must be one upper-case character, etc? cheers ...
I am trying to retrieve a group policy from a Windows Server 2008 Active Directory and change the minimum password age, maximum password age, and minimum password length in a C# application. Is there a way to do this? So far I have only found out how to create new Group Policy objects using Interop.GPMGMTLib (gpmgmt.dll), yet I haven...