Expiry - and back to old
Expiry - and back to old
Posted Aug 7, 2026 17:30 UTC (Fri) by MortenSickel (subscriber, #3238)Parent article: Changes in shadow-utils password-expiration features
We had a system at $PREVIOUSJOB with password expiry. You were not allowed to reuse the three last passwords, but as there was no minimum password age, after a while everybody knew you could change password three times with throwaway passwords and get back to your old trusty $PASSWORD...
(The system also demanded that the password was 8 charaters, no more, no less and it also just told you when you were to log in that 'Now you have to change yojr password before you can do whatever you had planned to do'...)
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