Re: PasswordSafe enhancement suggestion
Peter Hillier-Brook <[email protected]> Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:55:06 +0000
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.security.passwordsafe.user |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi Rony, How did I miss that! Sorry to have wasted your time. Next time I will enable my eyes before invoking my fingers. :-) Peter HB ronys wrote: > Hi Peter, > > Thanks for writing. > > If I understand you correctly, then recent versions of PasswordSafe have > the feature you're describing. Just click on the "Override Policy" checkbox > under the "Generate" button in the Add or Edit dialogs. This will invoke the > Password Policy dialog for the current entry. > > Is this what you were looking for? If not, can you explain in more detail? > > Cheers, > > Rony > > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Hillier-Brook [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 9:09 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: PasswordSafe enhancement suggestion > > Hi Rony, > > A problem I occasionally encounter is that some un-enlightened > organisations demand insecure passwords, namely upper and lower case > only, perhaps sometimes with digits. > > It would be helpful if PasswordSafe were to permit a variation on the > password policy from within the Edit/Create password dialogue - > obviously on a per password basis only. Presently one has to back out of > the editing dialogue and change the entire policy via > Manage>Options>Password Policy and then restore it after creating a new > entry. > > Just a thought. > > Best wishes. > > Peter HB > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H