Re: Password level change; custom signon screen

[Jerry Draper <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Why not?  20 char is enough.

J

On 9/13/2018 10:16 AM, DrFranken wrote:
> I suppose that might be possible but I just cannot resist asking: WHY?
>
> The only thing that makes a password secure is length. Not special 
> characters or requiring a number or a lowercase and an upper case. None 
> of that, only length. Why restrict it?  I'm truly curious!
>
>
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> On 9/12/2018 6:32 PM, Jerry Draper wrote:
> > We moved to password level two (128 byte passwords).
> >
> > I seem to remember that we can customize our signon screen and so 
> > limit password entry to some smaller field size (like 20) and make the 
> > rest of the field no entry/no display but still keep the 128 input 
> > buffer size to make the signon pgm happy.
> >
> > Jerry