[ADSM-L] Strong TSM Passwords?
2012-07-23 18:09:06
Does anyone know if IBM is ever going to expand the character set
accepted for TSM passwords? I was hoping that would happen in TSM 6.3,
but apparently it still has the same password rules as it has for as
long as I can remember:
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6r3/topic/com.ibm.itsm.client.doc/r_opt_password.html
A--Z
Any letter, A through Z, uppercase or lowercase
0--9
Any number, 0 through 9
+
Plus
.
Period
_
Underscore
-
Hyphen
&
Ampersand
The password policy at our university is this:
* Are at least eight alphanumeric characters long
* Contain at least three of the following four categories:
o upper case characters (e.g., A-Z)
o lower case characters (e.g., a-z)
o Digits (e.g., 0-9)
o Special characters ( e.g., !@#$%^&*()_+|~-=\`{}[]:";'<>?,./)
TSM doesn't meet that standard and it seems a little silly as that seems
to be the industry standard for secure passwords.
And yes, I am aware that special characters do not actually improve
password security that much, but...
http://xkcd.com/936/
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