RE: passwords

["Chris Berry" <compjma () hotmail com>]

> From: "Robert Sieber" <securityfocus () different-thinking de>
> It doesn't make sense because 90 days is too long. A password should be
> changed
> at least after 30 days - if they are strong enough. A cracker has 90 days
> to find out the correspondig password .....

If I tried that here, everyone would have sticky notes on their monitor, or 
if you crack down on that they'd get "clever" and hide it somewhere else 
like under their keyboard or something.  How did you get around this 
problem?  Or you have a very different definition of what a strong password 
is, my example of a strong password would be like this: X-ik]>_:72

Chris Berry
compjma () hotmail com
Systems Administrator
JM Associates

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