Changes to DICE Password Policy

We have introduced a new password policy for DICE accounts:

http://computing.help.inf.ed.ac.uk/password-policy

The significant changes made to the previous policy are:

  • We now have a more flexible approach to the number of character
    classes required in any password – specifically that the longer the
    password, the fewer number of distinct character classes is required.

  • All password checking is now undertaken on the server-side – prior to
    these changes, we had a mixture of client and server side checks.

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