49% of workers, forced to change passwords, reuse same one with minor change

Re:49% of workers, forced to change passwords, reuse same on... by pivo on Friday December 13, 2019 @01:13PM (#21783911)

Pro tip: With a history of 9 passwords, change your password 10 times every time you change it until you loop back to the original. That way you can use the same password indefinitely.

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Re:49% of workers, forced to change passwords, reuse same on... by epitrochoidal on Friday December 13, 2019 @01:31PM (#21784069)

I tried that one, but it doesn't work when there is another policy that says you are only allowed one password change per day.

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Re:49% of workers, forced to change passwords, reuse same on... by NedIsakoff on Friday December 13, 2019 @01:27PM (#21784033)

I thought of that, but we have a really bad AD/Mac setup where changing your password takes 30-60 minutes to propagate. During the time you try both your old and new passwords until they work.

If you try to change it again during the 30-60 minutes propagation time, then you need to try even more passwords passwords. Too complex to deal with.

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Re:49% of workers, forced to change passwords, reuse same on... by wolco on Friday December 13, 2019 @01:39PM (#21784143)

Great idea.

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