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Password Requirements and Special Characters

Use the following information when creating strong passwords for these DCCCD applications/systems:

Password Requirements

Application/System

Special Requirements

Password Length
(Min-Max)

Case Sensitive?

Colleague/Wintegrate/UI

at least one number and one letter

8

yes

eConnect

at least one number and one letter

8-9

yes

Novell network

uppercase letters should not be used

8-15

lowercase

GroupWise e-mail

none

8-15

yes




Special Characters Allowed (for all four of these applications)

.

period

-

hyphen

$

dollar sign

#

number sign

_

underscore

%

percentage sign

^

circumflex

single quote

)

right parenthesis

(

left parenthesis

`

accent mark

!

exclamation point



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