True Error
Your password must be at least 18,770 characters and cannot repeat any of your previous 30,689 passwords. Please type a different password. Type a password that meets these requirements in both text boxes. Note that the number of required characters changes from 17,145 to 18,770 with the installation of SP1.
You're telling me that it shouldn't be 18,291? Because I could have sworn it was when I looked the other day. Now, before you start freaking out, Microsoft can send you the fix – but only if you're impacted by this (obvious) oversight. Again, I can't stress this STRONGLY enough: you should only ask for the fix if you're seeing numbers like 16,322, 29,192, or 21,299. I wouldn't recommend setting a password less than 18,770 characters, regardless.
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3 Comments
Anonymous
January 18th, 2002
at 6:37pm
At least then it will be truly secure, since no one, including the user himself, would not be able to enter the password.
Anonymous
January 18th, 2002
at 8:05pm
wellheregoesmyreallyreallylongpassword,ihopeirememberittomorrowmorning,butwait,illprobablybeheretilltomorrowmorningmakingthispassword,ohwell…
Anonymous
January 20th, 2002
at 2:41pm
That KB article still kills me. If I had a sysadmin job right now I'd try showing that to clueless losers who moan about password policies that don't let them use their spouse or dog's name. Finding funny know base articles that don't involve easy ones like Actimates Barney is a good way to kill some time. Computer Randomly Plays Classical Music (Q261186) is a funny one. On a related note searching the KB through Google's site: feature is shockingly better than Microsoft's own search.