The password expiry feature has expired! [LWN.net]

The password expiry feature has expired!

Posted Aug 7, 2026 23:50 UTC (Fri) by mussell (subscriber, #170320)
In reply to: The password expiry feature has expired! by hailfinger
Parent article: Changes in shadow-utils password-expiration features

What if those policy setters are the university that employs the authors of the paper that started this [0]? If they won't listen to their own faculty who they pay several hundred thousand dollars on, they won't listen to anyone else.

0: https://carleton.ca/secretariat/wp-content/uploads/sites/... Schedule B

The password expiry feature has expired!

Posted Aug 8, 2026 0:57 UTC (Sat) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link]

Haha, ironic that Carleton U's policy goes against what Carleton U researchers recommend. I hope they update the policy before 2028.

I received an M.Eng from Carleton University, actually, but in the Mesozoic era when there were no required passport expiries, no rules about password complexity, and telnet and rlogin ruled the roost for remote access.