Microsoft says mandatory password changing is “ancient and obsolete” (2019)

Re:Microsoft says mandatory password changing is “ancient an... by merb on Monday April 19, 2021 @02:59PM (#26866634)

well I've known more clever users, guess what you need to do if your password needs to change every 90 days, but you need to have a different password for at least 5 cycles?

correct, you do it like that:

- h@se2003 - h@se2006 - h@se2009 - h@se2012 - h@se2103 - h@se2106

you get the point ;-) bonus points for encoding the username into it and making it a thing for the whole company, yeah very secure!

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Re:Microsoft says mandatory password changing is “ancient an... by corobo on Monday April 19, 2021 @06:35PM (#26868642)

This is how I used to do it. Just slap the year and Q on the end whenever it wanted me to change it. End of the quarter gets a bit tricky if things don't line up but it's mostly muscle memory by then

Sup3rdup3rp4ss2021Q2

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