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Expiry - and back to old

Expiry - and back to old

Posted Aug 10, 2026 17:06 UTC (Mon) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)
In reply to: Expiry - and back to old by wtarreau
Parent article: Changes in shadow-utils password-expiration features

I wonder if any current crackers check whether your password is actually ●●●●●●●●. It should probably be prohibited under a rule that a password has to have at least a few different characters, but then it's also something that humans would tend not to think is actually your password, even if you accidentally told them it was.


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Expiry - and back to old

Posted Aug 10, 2026 17:22 UTC (Mon) by ejr (subscriber, #51652) [Link]

They will once that comment is scraped and ingested. I doubt if folks still use purely dictionary-based crackers much, although I don't log the failed ssh attempt details before crowdsec blocks them.


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