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Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently

From Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.maint.boot
Subject Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently
Date 2024-03-04 16:10 +0100
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On Monday, 4 March 2024 10:43:59 CET Holger Wansing wrote:
> >Regarding the password advice, I ended up concluding that it's pretty
> >unlikely that anything we say at this point will have any effect on
> >people's behaviour, but then I'm probably just an old cynic. Also, I
> >failed when trying to come up with a wording which I was happy with,
> >which is why I ended up discarding the advice entirely.
> >
> >If we want to keep the password advice in then I think what you wrote is
> >(mostly) OK, although I think it implies that one should be choosing a
> >single "password" (although, not a word in any normal sense), which
> >could be argued to steer people away from the perfectly decent xkcd
> >approach of using several dictionary words. Saying "Password or
> >Passphrase" at least once would probably address that.
> 
> Ok, makes it a bit longer, but it could be worth it.

https://wiki.debian.org/Passwords doesn't exist (yet), but it's an easy to 
remember URL and we'd have all the space we need to give proper advise?

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Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> - 2024-02-25 01:50 +0100
  Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2024-02-25 23:50 +0100
    Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> - 2024-02-29 21:10 +0100
      Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> - 2024-02-29 23:20 +0100
        Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> - 2024-03-01 00:40 +0100
          Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> - 2024-03-01 07:00 +0100
            Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> - 2024-03-01 15:50 +0100
            Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> - 2024-03-01 21:00 +0100
              Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> - 2024-03-01 22:40 +0100
                Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> - 2024-03-02 21:10 +0100
                Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> - 2024-03-02 23:00 +0100
                Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> - 2024-03-03 00:50 +0100
                Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> - 2024-03-04 06:30 +0100
                Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> - 2024-03-04 10:50 +0100
                Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> - 2024-03-04 16:10 +0100
                Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> - 2024-03-04 22:40 +0100
                Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> - 2024-03-04 23:00 +0100
                Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> - 2024-03-04 22:10 +0100
  Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> - 2024-03-05 16:20 +0100
    Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> - 2024-03-05 18:00 +0100
      Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> - 2024-03-05 19:40 +0100
        Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> - 2024-03-05 20:40 +0100
          Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently Justin B Rye <justin.byam.rye@gmail.com> - 2024-03-05 21:50 +0100
            Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> - 2024-03-05 22:30 +0100
              Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently Justin B Rye <justin.byam.rye@gmail.com> - 2024-03-05 23:00 +0100
                Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> - 2024-03-06 08:40 +0100
                Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently Justin B Rye <justin.byam.rye@gmail.com> - 2024-03-06 09:20 +0100
                Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> - 2024-03-06 11:20 +0100
                Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently Justin B Rye <justin.byam.rye@gmail.com> - 2024-03-06 13:30 +0100
                Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> - 2024-03-06 14:00 +0100
                Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> - 2024-03-06 16:00 +0100
                Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently Justin B Rye <justin.byam.rye@gmail.com> - 2024-03-07 09:00 +0100
                Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> - 2024-03-07 20:30 +0100
                Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> - 2024-03-08 20:10 +0100
                Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> - 2024-03-08 23:20 +0100
                Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently Justin B Rye <justin.byam.rye@gmail.com> - 2024-03-09 14:00 +0100
                Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> - 2024-03-09 16:40 +0100
        Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> - 2024-03-05 20:50 +0100
          Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> - 2024-03-06 19:50 +0100
  Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> - 2024-03-05 19:40 +0100

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