Why not let the administrator decide?
Why not let the administrator decide?
Posted Aug 11, 2026 8:22 UTC (Tue) by geert (subscriber, #98403)In reply to: Why not let the administrator decide? by mb
Parent article: Changes in shadow-utils password-expiration features
The really annoying character rules are the ones that insist on the presence of special characters, but reject half of the common special characters. So it takes a lot of cycling through "generate password" in your password manager until you end up with one that is accepted.
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