Password Change Day

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mik
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Password Change Day

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You change your work logon cos you have to. :geek:

You know you have done this. :ugeek:

You spend the next 24hrs typing in your old password EVERY FUCKING TIME before retyping your new one instead. :evil:

<sigh> not getting any younger. :?
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Re: Password Change Day

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Expiring passwords is no longer considered good practice. Refuse to do it.
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My last place they did away with password changes last year and replaced it with minimum 13 character passwords. :x
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mik
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Regulations mate.
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GG.
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Would be great if everything moves to face ID on webcams wouldn't it :D
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tim wrote: Fri Feb 26, 2021 8:48 am Expiring passwords is no longer considered good practice. Refuse to do it.
Is it??? I'm all for it, if so.
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GG. wrote: Fri Feb 26, 2021 4:00 pm Would be great if everything moves to face ID on webcams wouldn't it :D
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I changed mine on Monday. I'm still thinking the old password before remembering the new one. I'll settle for a long one (ooo, err) that doesn't change, over the faff of changing, then having to log into everything again with 2FA, etc.
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New work password = the last one with the last digit incremented by one and a text file with all the other passwords in it. Because its still 1995 apparently.
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How frequently do you have to do it? I need to use a Dutch government SharePoint site regularly for work and it requires a password change every 30 days : :evil:
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Ours is monthly and as they seem to not like similar passwords my current one is 20 characters long.

It’s a faff.

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When I worked at places that did this I just changed it as it insisted then once it was happy I changed it straight back.
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Yeah, 30 days is pretty standard policy, but like Tim says, this is a very old practice and not recommended these days.
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Re: Password Change Day

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Try something complex with symbols and numbers in place of letters, computer says no. Lose the will to live and enter Monday1, accepted. :D
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:mrgreen: ransomware guys rejoice!
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