More tricks
More tricks
Posted Aug 10, 2026 8:03 UTC (Mon) by ibukanov (subscriber, #3942)Parent article: Changes in shadow-utils password-expiration features
On one of projects I worked the password rotation policy was enforced together with checks for a lot of common tricks. Still people came up with tricks like altering the case of couple of letters or swapping parts of passwords. Nobody liked it including the management but they explicitly told this was forced by regulations.