• MrQuallzin@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    One of our systems at work don’t let you use the past thirteen passwords! Plus monthly password changes. Guess who’s got a generic password that has an ever increasing number at the end of it…

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      If I’m not mistaken It’s actually shown to be bad to change passwords that often because you end up with people writing them down

    • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Pretty much everyone, which is why NIST no longer recommends automatic password expiry anymore.

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      One of my work applications doesn’t allow you to use any of the letters in the same spot or any repeating letters . And it expires every 45 days . So for example if I used Batman1 for my password . I can’t just switch to Captain2 because the second letter is the same . And you can’t use something like Poophead because there are 2 O’s in a row . It’s a nightmare every time it expires .

    • Nelots@lemm.ee
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      This is what password managers are nice for. I only know like two of my passwords all across the internet.

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          Lunar calendars also have 12 months but each is shorter and so the year is shorter. Some have a leap month but that doesn’t help either. Sure, you can iterate thru these names but that doesn’t help you to remember to current one. The idea of using months is that you know in which month you are right now.