Why not let the administrator decide?
Why not let the administrator decide?
Posted Aug 12, 2026 21:15 UTC (Wed) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)In reply to: Why not let the administrator decide? by Wol
Parent article: Changes in shadow-utils password-expiration features
My personal password rule is: My login password must begin with /.
Can you figure out why? 🙂
I once typed the password into what I thought was a locked screen but was actually an IRC client. Thankfully, most chat programs have continued the tradition of using / to start a command.