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Novell/LDAP Password Security Requirements

You are required to change your password change every five years and must comply with these four conditions:

1) at least seven characters in length

2) contain at least one of each of the following:

upper case letter
lower case letter
number
special character
Note: allowed special characters: !"$%&'()*+,/:;<=>?[\]^_`{|}~
not allowed: -.#@blank

3) not contain these common words:

Novell account attributes - first name, last name, user id
Location - Dayton, OSU, Ohio
Technology - root/r00t, pass, word/w0rd, secret, admin
Religious - Mary, God, Jesus, Christ, cross, holy, Heaven, Hell
UD - UD, Rudy, flyer, flier

4) not contain 3 or more repeats of any character (aaa, ZZZ, 111, &&&)

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