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Large - 30 character passwords for SYS & System

edited Feb 25, 2016 4:04AM in Database Administration (MOSC) 10 commentsAnswered

My corporate security team is proposing that SYS, SYSTEM and other DBA level accounts use 30 character passwords. They will be archived in CyberArk vault with copy/paste function - we will not be typing 30 character passwords!

I know that Oracle supports 30 character passwords, I've even tested that it's not an issue with multibyte charactersets for the punctuation characters that we will use.

I have two questions:

1. Is anyone aware of DB systems currently using such large passwords (30 characters)?

2. If you do use large passwords, do you have any issues?

Personally, I do not think this will add anything to our security levels and have made that argument, but that has not made any headway.

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