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This practice is not recommended anymore, yet still found in many enterprises.

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[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Just add a number suffix and increment it each time. This doesn't exactly make your password any stronger but that's not what they're asking for with their stupid policy.

[–] YerbaYerba@lemm.ee 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

My company tracks the first and last character so you can't do that. Personally I change a single character in the middle of my password to work around this.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Error: Your password's Levenshtein distance indicates that your new password is more than 20% similar to a password previously used within the last 10 years.

Policy requires your password to:

  • Be unique
  • Have at least one uppercase letter
  • Have at least one lowercase letter
  • Contain 2 symbols other than apostrophe
  • Have 4 numbers that are either separated by other characters, or represent an integer both greater than 3000 and not ending with the same last two digits as the previous or next 17 years from the current date.
  • Include exactly one Cryllic character
  • Exceed no more than 18 characters

/satire (I hope)

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 6 points 3 months ago

Same. Its so stupid. Doesn't increase security and just annoys everyone.