Password must meet complexity requirements

[jack_x]

Hi,

The password must meet complexity requirements policy must be contain characters from three of the following four categories:

English uppercase characters (A through Z)

English lowercase characters (a through z)

Base 10 digits (0 through 9)

Non-alphabetic characters (for example, !, $, #, %)

How I can customize this policy to be two of four categories?

Thanks,

Edited January 7, 2009 by jack_x

[todarsey]

you would have to go in and edit the Local Security Policy. Go to run and typy in gpedit.msc and that will bring up the editor.

[iamtheky]

for your scenario however, i believe you either have to hack up the passfilt.dll or pay$$

google 'granular password complexity'

http://www.specopssoft.com/products/specopspasswordpolicy/

[nitroshift]

for your scenario however, i believe you either have to hack up the passfilt.dll or pay$$

google 'granular password complexity'

http://www.specopssoft.com/products/specopspasswordpolicy/

There's no really need for that. gpedit.msc will suffice.

[iamtheky]

Indeed you have a mess of stars, but no concrete examples?

I do not believe that you can drop the complexity rules from its current 'ANY 3 of existing 4 rules' to 'ANY 2 of existing 4 rules' by any simple means in gpedit.

I believe I would enjoy being proved wrong more than the OP would enjoy getting an easy answer.

Edited January 8, 2009 by iamtheky