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Mercury lets an account administrator and anyone with the Manage Account permission force a password reset or expire passwords on a custom schedule. Here's how it works:
Strong passwords are required for all Mercury Network users. While the word "strong" may sound generic, it actually carries specific requirements you'll need to observe when creating your password. A strong password will contain at least 8 characters, made up of a combination of at least 3 of the following:
There is a set of special characters which are acceptable for a Mercury Network password - whether it's strong or not. Here they are:
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A very common method used to create a strong password is to choose a sentence or phrase, then use it to "distill" a strong password. For example:
Use this process with a personal phrase which no one could guess, and you'll have a very strong password that's easy to remember. Plus, you'll see that our example password contains 17 characters which, in Mercury, is considered an Optimal password because it contains more than 14 characters.
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