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Password ageing in 10.6

alevasseur14

alevasseur14

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I seem to remember there was a feature being touted in the lead up to Snow Leopard that would allow a user to require account passwords to be changed every 72 days or so. I've tried searching Google and Apple and can't seem to find the preference panel to enable it.

Am I making this up or has anyone else found this setting? Thanks all!
 
Hmm... never heard of that feature. But not to say that it wasn't something that was supposed to be in there.. I have read a couple reports recently that have said that changing your password regularly actually leads to worse security measures than just creating a nice secure password that you remember. Since, if you're constantly changing them you have to remember them some how, and usually it's by writing notes, or just dumbing them down.
 
I'm not too worried about the passwords being insecure. I enter my passwords many, many times a day and usually have a new one memorized in less than a day. I also use password generators to give me alpha-numeric passwords between 8 to 12 characters long.

This is a bummer. I swear I remember reading about that somewhere. I suppose I can just set a reminder every couple months and be done with it.
 
alevasseur14 said:
I'm not too worried about the passwords being insecure. I enter my passwords many, many times a day and usually have a new one memorized in less than a day. I also use password generators to give me alpha-numeric passwords between 8 to 12 characters long.

This is a bummer. I swear I remember reading about that somewhere. I suppose I can just set a reminder every couple months and be done with it.
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That's cool. I'm sure there is a small footprint utility that can do it, though.
 
I remember there was a way in linux to do this, something to do with /etc/default/passwd, so you might check something similar, as it might work.
 
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