Re: Tough password question!

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In news:eK2KlqkAGHA.2912@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Herb Martin <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> stated, which I commented on below:

> Something wrong here -- the question wasn't real clear -- because
> I have (consistently) used passwords longer than 14 characters on
> Win2000 member servers and domains both.
>
> NT had a problem here. Win2000 does not in my experience.
>
> What are we missing in this discussion?
>
> In fact I recommend that people use MORE than 14 characters
> whenever there is no need to support NT and LMHashes. Part
> of the value is the long password effectively disables the weaker
> hash storage.
>


Forgive me, I was going by NT4's restrictions. Sorry about that. I think the
limit in Windows 2000/2003 is 128 characters.

Ace


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