On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Paul Hill <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 25 August 2014 21:37,  <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Just curious.  AT&T said it has to be 6-24 characters long and won't
> allow
> > (at least some) punctuation.  I thought all of the talk in recent years
> was
> > to allow a person to have some crazy long sentence as their password
> (and of
> > course the more character combination--including punctuation--the
> better).
> >
> > ???
>
> Tesco in the UK have a restriction: "Must be between six and ten
> characters in length"
>
> I use a 3rd party tool to manage my passwords.  It generates passwords
> like this:
> 6aRZ-c1!B1^x
>
> I logged a complaint.
>
> "I am sorry that you are unhappy with the length of password you can
> use to register on our website. I have now logged your comments on our
> Customer Feedback System under reference 13782619. This will ensure
> that it is fed back to the relevant team in our Head Office."
>
> Of course nothing happened...  This was 2 years ago.  Maybe it's time
> to try again.---------
>

I found out that one of my sites was like that and they increased the PW
len. from 8 max to 16 or 24.  Never told me, but when I did a switch last
month is saw the new capability.

-- 
Stephen Russell
Sr. Analyst
Ring Container Technology
Oakland TN

901.246-0159 cell


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