password policy

[Former Member]

Hi I had to change my password today. Could you explain why a password needs to be exactly 8 characters and cannot be longer?

[former_member182657]

Hi Almar,

password needs to be exactly 8 characters and cannot be longer?

It's completely depends on password policies of the software which you're using (could be SAP,oracle,Microsoft server or so on ) .

Hope you'll be agree with me.

[Former Member]

Hi Gaurav,

I'm sorry, I thought by posting in the SCN discipline it would be clear that I was talking about the SCN password policy.

See the screen below. Let me rephrase the question. Why does the SAP SCN system has a password policy with password that need to be exactly 8 characters, and not at least 8 characters.Any hacker would be delighted to know that he only has to test for 8 digit passwords.

Regards,

Almar

[former_member182657]

Best would be to refer SCN support () for same.They can give you the best solution or your query.

Good luck !!

[former_member183424]

I think this policy has been changed now, I can see the policy is like below :

Looping for more information.

[JasonLax]

I'll be honest and I don't know.  I'd also rather not discuss security matters since I'm not an expert in this.  I have alerted some colleagues to this thread in hopes of getting an answer.

[Former Member]

Whom should I contact for possible security issue that I'm noticing lately?

Br,

Mario

[JasonLax]

Please eMail sapnetwork@sap.com

[Former Member]

Thx Jason!

[former_member182657]

Hi Almar,

There are so many links on search engines for the query here & suggest you to search before asking,Anyways you could refer link Selecting Secure Passwords

Hope this will be the answer of your query.

Regards,

[Former Member]

Hello Gaurav,

Thanks for your reply. Please reread the question...

Regards,

Almar

[former_member182657]

Hi Almar,

Could you please share where are you getting this warning or message in SAP

password needs to be exactly 8 characters and cannot be longer?

Thanks,