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Aha, I see you've run afoul of a sysadmin who looked at a youtube video on security once and is now a security expert. If you can't use a password manager, resort to writing your password on a sticky note, sticking it to your screen and then sending a picture to your IT department every time you change your password
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iAmNaN68455yWelcome to devRant! I have to change my 8 character password every three months. I'm running out of things I can easily remember. Damn mainframe requires no more than 8 characters and other dumb limitations.
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Hi, welcome to devRant.
Funny think: Any forced regular password change is not the recommended practice anymore, especially with such a short time. The reason is it leads to predictable passwords or people putting it on sticky notes.
My tip: Ask if you can use a Yubikey (or Smartcard) to login, where you would just need PIN + device to login while even increasing security. -
@iAmNaN My company has one of those stupid mainframes too. It gets difficult to come up with 8-character passwords after the first five or ten...
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nikcodes835y@sbiewald I thought that wasn't best practice anymore, then again there are systems here that I am more than certain are storing passwords in plain text, so best practices isn't really high up on priority list. A yubi key is a good thing to lobby for though...
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kleopi8715yEnter 28 different passwords, then switch back to your previous password and it should work again ._. Works with mainframes at least
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Not dev per sé but annoys see he'll out of me on a monthly basis... 30 day password expiration, how does that make things more secure?! The thing that makes it worse is that I can't use any previous 28 passwords or anything too similar... Now I'm stuck with a 36 character password which I have to put in everytime my work machine decides to lock out... Which is less than a minute of not touching it.
What's that? No I can't turn around and answer a question because if I do I'll be taking 20mins off of my future career prospects as I'm working on leveling up my inevitable arthritis
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passwords stupid practices