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  • Re: password too restrictive

    Posted to IIS.NET Site Feedback by IanDSamson on 07-22-2009, 6:28 AM

    That may be the case, tomkmvp, but how many sites do you work on? How many usernames, how many passwords do you have to remember? What happens should your disk crash and all your passwords are lost? Nothing is infallible and especially not Microsoft products, so if you have to reinstall your OS, how do you remember which password you entered ...

    • http://forums.iis.net/p/1153831/1911161.aspx#1911161
  • Re: password too restrictive

    Posted to IIS.NET Site Feedback by IanDSamson on 05-10-2009, 3:53 PM

    [quote user="riznick"] maybe im just being cranky.  I like using generic easy passwords for sites where security is of low importance.  Forcing us to have uppercase+lowercase+numbers on a forum seems like overkill. [/quote] "SEEMS like"? It IS overkill. I would tell those programmers to be less anal-retentive and ...

    • http://forums.iis.net/p/1153831/1903281.aspx#1903281
  • Re: password too restrictive

    Posted to IIS.NET Site Feedback by IanDSamson on 05-10-2009, 3:49 PM

    when i joined this site, I was told my regular password was not acceptable because the password I had to use (HAD TO use) contains at least one upper case, one lower case, and one numeral in the password. Just who the #*$& do IIS think they are to prescribe user passwords?

    • http://forums.iis.net/p/1153831/1903280.aspx#1903280

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