Password Policy
To improve the security of our network a new password policy will be enforced beginning August 14, 2006.
The criteria for the new passwords are:
- Length must be at least 8 characters
- Password complexity is required
- Password history of 1 with a minimum password age of 3 days.
For password complexity your password must use three of the following types of characters:
- Uppercase character
- Lowercase character
- number
- symbol/punctuation
For the password history and minimum password age, this is to ensure that when you change your password you can not use your current password and you cannot change your password back to what it previously was immediately after changing it.
We place a policy in place that for faculty/staff passwords are set to not expire. It is recommend that you do change your password from time to time. If a faculty or staff member changes his/her password after this policy goes into effect, he/she will need to need the new criteria for the new password.
For all other users, passwords are set to expire in 1 year, i.e., you will be required to change you password once a year.
