Modification of Passfilt.dll

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I need to modify the passfilt.dll. I just need to relax the default passfilt
to only require numeric and alpha characters within the password instead of 3
of the 4 character types. I have researched this and downloaded the platform
sdk for windows 2003 server. I made modifications to the source in the sdk
and when I try to use nmake to compile it tells me that this will only work
on winnt. Please help.
 
Try posting in one of the SDK newsgroups such as the one for security. It is
out of my area of expertise but I really have to wonder however on why there
is a need to do such and those in the know usually strongly discourage using
a custom passfilt.dll unless it is part of a third party program that has a
track record of working well. Is it really that hard for a user to come up
with a password that users three of the four possibilities which
substantially increases the strength of the password? I know it is probably
not your doing but I really would be concerned about having an employee or
computer users that is not capable of dealing with a password that meets
complexity requirements. --- Steve
 
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