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Enforcing No Dictionary Words as Passwords

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by kbrindle2002

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How does one go about doing this? is there software or a policy I am unfamiliar with in Windows 2003? Let me know, as I am sure I am not the only SA needing to know this for HIPAA.

Thanks!!

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by lowlands

The closest to what you are looking for is to enable complex passwords. You can do this from a GPO in a windows 2003 domain.

Like the policy states, it will require passwords with the following restrcitions:

? Is not based on the user?s account name.

? Contains at least six characters.

? Contains characters from three of the following four categories:

? Uppercase alphabet characters (A?Z)

? Lowercase alphabet characters (a?z)

? Arabic numerals (0?9)

? Nonalphanumeric characters (for example, !$#,%)

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