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My work required me to change passwords every 90 days. I worked there for 8 years. My first password was [password]1 and my last one was [password]34. I'm gues

• xur17 7y ago
  My first job out of college had a policy like this, and I did something similar. Biggest problem was that we had multiple password systems, all with their own policies, so my passwords slowly got out of sync.
• Izkata 7y ago
  Mine is somewhere between 30 and 50 days (been keeping track and it seems to shift around). For a while a bunch of us were able to get them to stop expiring our passwords, until upper management found out and put a stop to it. The counter on my password is somewhere up in the 50s or 60s. (For those of us on linux, it's only used for wifi access - things like email and svn use a different, non-expiring password)
• Liskni_si 7y ago
  There's actually no need to really change the password. The check for used passwords has its limits, so after going through [password]1 to, let's say, [password]20, it lets you use [password]1 again. A script (for loop with smbpasswd, for example) can do this in a few seconds.