Password Woes

Posted by Dustin on July 3, 2008 under Uncategorized, Websphere Commerce | Be the First to Comment

So a few things I’ve noticed about Passwords here at wonderland are that none of them have the same restrictions/parameters.

Lets start with the Windows Password:

1. minimum length: I think it’s 6 characters
2. Maximum Length: not sure if there is one but there is a rumor floating around that it’s 127 chars.
3. Special Chars allowed: Yes
4. Quirkiness: nothing so far but stay tuned.

Accelerator Passwords (better split this up):

Ecom2:

1. minimum length: not sure but I think 6 chars.
2. maximum length: haven’t hit one yet (up to 11 chars)
3. Special Chars allowed: not sure
4. Quirkiness: nothing so far.

WCDEV/WC6:

1. minimum length: 8 characters
2. maximum length: ?
3. Special Chars allowed: not sure
4. Quirkiness: besides it doesn’t match ECOM2? nothing.

iSeries/WCDEV (server):

1. minimum length: 6?
2. maximum length: at least 10 maybe less my 11 char password failed on me
3. Special Chars allowed: not sure
4. Quirkiness: if you are trying to log into the file system either through start/run or on a saved link/mapped ip you will have to match up this password with your windows password or you’ll be pulling your hair out trying to make it all happen, and you’ll still fail. Also Ryan has informed me that Passwords contiaining capitol letters fail on this (I think when trying to access the filesystem) and someone mentioned that a number starting a password is a bad idea (also fails some how).

So to sum it up if you want to make all your paswords match when you change (every 45 days) you will have to keep them between 8 and 10 chars ( or maybe 8 and 8 chars) and you probably don’t want to use capital letters AND you may want to avoid starting your password with a number.

On a more exciting note Brett has informed me that Accelerator doesn’t force a password change like windows does ( i’m not sure it forces a change at all, and the iseries password can be different from the accelerator password so my suggestion/plan is to use one password for all accelerator logins and then just change the windows and iseries/wcdev password as needed.

if I had the clout to do anything about it all I would but alas i’m merely a drudgen.