Imagine how you'd feel if you were at MIT and ran into this situation while changing your password. You press CTRL + ALT + DEL and click on Change Password. You enter your old and new passwords and get the following error:
Thankfully, this is not a sadistic IT Security requirement. It's just an uncommon bug that affects Windows 2000 users trying to authenticate to an MIT Kerberos domain. I'm thinking that a brute force hack attack wouldn't be very effective in this case.
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Your password must be at least 18770 characters and cannot repeat any of your previous 30689 passwords. Please type a different password. Type a password that meets these requirements in both text boxes.
Thankfully, this is not a sadistic IT Security requirement. It's just an uncommon bug that affects Windows 2000 users trying to authenticate to an MIT Kerberos domain. I'm thinking that a brute force hack attack wouldn't be very effective in this case.
[H]ard|OCP - www.hardocp.com
