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Password Length
- Minimum of 8 characters
- Maximum length of 40 characters
What It Must Contain
It must contain at least one character from three of the following lists:
Uppercase Alphabetic (A-Z)
Numbers (0-9)
Lower case Alphabetic (a-z)
These Special Characters are allowed:
! $ % & , ( ) - + - . / ; : < = > ? [ \ ] ^ _ { | } ~
These are some of the characters that are not allowed:
# " @ and the space character
NOTE: A password can be “simpler” (e.g. CalPolyLearnbyDoingisGreat) - with a minimum of 16 characters.
What It Cannot Contain
- Any words of 3 or more characters, including foreign words
- Any groups of 3 or more characters of the same character type
- Any names, person, places, or things found in a common dictionary
- Any of your names (first, middle, last), any current Cal Poly username
- Your previous password changed within the last year
- Repetitive characters (sequences)