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No, eight characters, some capital letters and numbers is not a good password policy

ITS Retired
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Or like one person I knew back in beige CRT days, who wrote the passwords in pencil around the front edge of the monitor.

Well, when you have some 2 dozen passwords with forced changes, depending on the login, from 30, 60, 90 days... and different password requirements for each password.

Too frequent password changes is a security breach. It leads to people to have passwords such as - Password1, or passw0rD1, Password#1, etc,

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