<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I remember at ISU when you'd get a kerberos ticket, it would last 8 hours before it would expire. I'm guessing the crux of the bug was that M$ saw the kerberos ticket *as* the password or some such.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-Tom<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Aug 21, 2007, at 9:28 AM, Lathrop Preston wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">8?<BR><BR><DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote">On 8/21/07, <B class="gmail_sendername">Tom Pohl</B> <<A href="mailto:tom@tcpconsulting.com">tom@tcpconsulting.com</A>> wrote:</SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> And then 8 hours later, your password expires :)<BR><BR>-Tom<BR><BR>On Aug 21, 2007, at 8:46 AM, Matthew Nuzum wrote:<BR><BR>> So it looks like someone at Microsoft takes security seriously by<BR>> enforcing strong passwords: <BR>> <A href="http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B276304&x=16&y=20">http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B276304&x=16&y=20</A><BR>><BR>> Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and <BR>> Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords<BR>><BR>> ...<BR>><BR>> APPLIES TO<BR>> • Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 1<BR>> • Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server<BR>> • Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 1 <BR>><BR>><BR>> Wow, I sound like a sissy after complaining yesterday about having to<BR>> type my password so many times. I think with a password complying with<BR>> the above policy it'd take me all morning to log in. Can you imagine <BR>> seeing the post-it note stuck to the side of the monitor of someone<BR>> with one of those passwords?<BR>><BR>> --<BR>> Matthew Nuzum<BR>> newz2000 on freenode<BR>> _______________________________________________ <BR>> Cialug mailing list<BR>> <A href="mailto:Cialug@cialug.org">Cialug@cialug.org</A><BR>> <A href="http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug">http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug</A><BR><BR>_______________________________________________ <BR>Cialug mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:Cialug@cialug.org">Cialug@cialug.org</A><BR><A href="http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug">http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug</A><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Cialug mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:Cialug@cialug.org">Cialug@cialug.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug">http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>