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I usually just make up a crazy long sentence I'll remember, with no logical order in it. Something funny to me so I'll easily remember it. Throw in some assortm

• adrianN 10y ago
  Then the sysadmin hits you with a "at least 8 characters, no more than 13, one uppercase, one lowercase, a number, a special character, but not one that can't be encoded in EBCDIC and the password must differ in at least three places from the last 10 you used."
  • tbihl 10y ago
    No more than three consecutive letters. That's when things get tedious.
    • snuxoll 10y ago
      Entropy? What's that.
• cafard 10y ago
  Ah. Last Friday at work I changed my password. It worked fine when I unlocked my computer after stepping away. On the way home, I noticed that my iPhone wasn't updating email, and recalled that I hadn't changed the password there. But I could not get the iPhone to accept my password. Nor could I get Outlook webmail to accept it. I was afraid that I might have to trouble one of the network admins, but I tried the VPN client. That accepted the password. I RDPed into a machine on the internal network, changed the password to something a little shorter, and confirmed that Exchange was OK with it. As I recall, the boundary was somewhere around 20 characters.