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...d password changes, and other useless crap like complexity > requirements, weakens security over time. As you grind on users every > quarter to change a strong password, users choose weaker and weaker > passwords that comply with policy until you are left with weak > passwords like P at ssword1. > > If you are interested in the science, then read Peter Gutmann's > Engineering Security (Chapter 7 PASSWORDS) or NIST SP800-63b, Digital > Identity Guidelines. Gutmann's book is particularly well cited with > security and usability studies, and it dispels all the myths, l...

...compromised. Forced password changes, and other useless crap like complexity requirements, weakens security over time. As you grind on users every quarter to change a strong password, users choose weaker and weaker passwords that comply with policy until you are left with weak passwords like P at ssword1. If you are interested in the science, then read Peter Gutmann's Engineering Security (Chapter 7 PASSWORDS) or NIST SP800-63b, Digital Identity Guidelines. Gutmann's book is particularly well cited with security and usability studies, and it dispels all the myths, like password rotation an...

On Wed May 21 02:51:51 2025 Luis Peromarta via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote: > > In 20 minutes. > > http://samba.bigbird.es/doku.php?id=samba:start > On 21 May 2025 at 08:13 +0200, samba at lists.samba.org <samba at lists.samba.org>, wrote: > > > > > > > > I will repeat this, I suggest you move away from slackware to Debian, > > if