Like many of you, I just received a spate of emails from BYU saying my aliases were getting nuked. I visited the referenced link to see what was going on, which turned out to be behind the central login (CAS). It's been a while since I've been at BYU, and I naturally don't remember my password, so I went to the forgot my password link, got my temp password, and proceeded to the change my password page. Unfortunately, while that page had a space for me to enter my new password, it had no guidelines on the password requirements. After trying a few and getting summarily rejected each time, I asked a co-worker that recently came over from BYU and he said it was just a length requirement.
I'm sure someone on this list knows someone that has a brother that dated the daughter of someone with the power to change the text that appears on the change my password page. To that person: Can you ask the powers that be to put the password requirements on that page? I'm sure omitting them was an innocent oversight, but those of us that are psychic-ly challenged would appreciate some direction on this stuff. -Brent P.S. That was meant as a narrative, not a rant. -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
