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Originally Posted by GirlySports
passwords
our company switched to a 30 character minimum password, 30! No Upper case or special characters or numbers or anything, just 30.
and if I'm remoting in on VPN, I have to enter it 3 times. 30 characters!
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This is not the worst thing in the world, though I think thirty characters is a bit much. I would probably set it at twenty characters minimum so you can use something like "Thisjobcouldpaybetter" or "MycatsnameisLucipurr".
Getting rid of special characters and complexity requirements beyond prohibiting repetition (ie: no passwords like 'aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa' or '12345678901234567890') are a good thing. Passwords should be easy for a person to remember so you don't have people writing it on a sticky note and putting it under their keyboards, but difficult for a computer to crack and password length is so much more important than complexity in that regard.
But yeah, thirty characters is a bit long.