AD allows 127 characters. I have (progmatically) set passwords up to this length. Win9x were limited to 14 IIRC. Some people may have incorrectly assumed that the AD limit is based on the length of the password field in the interactive dialog box which is something like 28 characters or so, but scrolls when that size is exceeded. That may explain the erroneous documentation. Try setting a password to something straightforward for testing like A1aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa and verify if it's a length issue or something else.
Brian -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 11:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: AD Password complexity - passwords too long? Hello list, We have password complexities set on our domain; minimum password length is 8 and all XP users and Windows 2003 servers. I can set my password to 9-10 characters, but if I try to set it for 10+ characters, they get the error message that they do not meet the complexity requirements. I have searched Microsoft documentation, and find minimum length requirements. I think I saw something about 28 characters, and even 127 characters. Does anyone know if there is a max password length? We would like to keep the minimum 8 characters, and the maximum varied at the users discretion. Can this be done? Thanks
