swordmage: (Absence of faith)
Willa ([personal profile] swordmage) wrote2008-02-05 09:53 am

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So, the University is making us all change our passwords. It then rating them for strength, and if they're too weak, will not accept them.

I am less than enthused by this.

ETA: I appear to have forgotten the answer to my question - WTH?

[identity profile] satharn.livejournal.com 2008-02-05 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't forget to put it into your laptop for accessing UAwifi. I had to do that too.

What I don't get is why I have to manually tell it to connect to UAwifi. I don't have to do the password I just have to look for networks and then click on UAwifi in order for it to even work. It keeps saying "Windows cannot connect to UAwifi" and dropping me to UAPublic.

Stoopid Vista. :P

[identity profile] swordmage.livejournal.com 2008-02-05 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I've given up on UAWiFi.

[identity profile] satharn.livejournal.com 2008-02-06 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
I can understand why. Its a pain.

[identity profile] great-cthulhu.livejournal.com 2008-02-06 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
Could always be worse. On one of our systems at work we have to change our passwords every 90 days, it's picky about the minimum requirements (so many letters, so many numbers, so many total characters, so many of each not in the previous password, yada yada), and it won't let you reuse passwords until after about ten changes. Our users don't like us much for this, but at least we can blame the state ;)

[identity profile] shade-scribbler.livejournal.com 2008-02-08 10:40 am (UTC)(link)
That must be a state thing, we had to do that at Value Options. Which resulted in everyone writing their password on a piece of paper inside their desk drawer, just like in Ferris Bueler's Day off and War games. So very secure!