In hindsight, it's funny that this discussion was brought up. I just saw this come across my feeds this evening -- http://blogs.technet.com/askds/archive/2009/05/19/understanding-password-policies.aspx
Discusses password policies and clears up some of the MS documentation. Hope it helps. Anthony Petito On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Cruz, Dariel <[email protected]> wrote: > Password length and complexity are two different policies, password > complexity also includes the 6 char minimum flag, If I were you I would set > the complexity policy first then the length policy and narrow it down that > way, although it looks to me if you are getting the message that it failed > complexity then it is not the length of the password that you are having the > problem with as long as it is more than 6 char. In any event I would try one > then the other :) > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 12:32 PM > 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 >
