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by Alifatisk 1061 days ago
My last job forced us to create a password with:

- minimum of 21 characters

- has to contain capital letter

- numbers

- special character

I had a discussion with someone on the IT department on why this was unnecessary and he agreed but said they were forced by higher ups.

1 comments

Oddly, “Minimumof21Characters.” Seems to meet that need.

Management should never set password policies, but I’ll bet that in a large number of firms that’s the case.