Computing Password Policy
The TCU password policy applies to all students, faculty and staff.
- Password Expiration and History
- Passwords are required to be changed at least once every 120 days
- Passwords can be changed every 0 days
- The last 5 passwords must be different
- Password Strength
- Contain at least 7 characters
- Contain at least one alpha character: A-z
- Contain at least one numeric character: 0-9
- Contain at least one special character: ! # $ ^ & * () {} [] – _ = + ` ~ ; ‘ ” ? / , <> or .\
- Not be too similar to your last password
- Not be too similar to your name
- Not be a word, greater than 4 characters, found in the dictionary
- Account lockout
- Accounts will be locked out after 5 failures in 15 minutes
- Accounts will be locked out for 2 hours after the last failed logon attempt
Approved by the TCU Cabinet November, 2004