On 11/2/2010 9:40 PM, Jesús M. Navarro wrote:
Hi, lee: On Tuesday 02 November 2010 21:26:54 lee wrote:On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 06:29:03PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:On 11/01/2010 04:45 PM, Jesús M. Navarro wrote:Hi, Ron: On Monday 01 November 2010 18:49:01 Ron Johnson wrote: [...]If someone learns my password on day 2, they have full access to my account for 74 days, or I must beg for SysAdmin help? "Minimum number of days" isn't a very bright idea.It is, for a low minimum number. The rationale is to avoid the user reusing passwords: Ok, so my password is 12345678 and I must change it now? Let's do it: 87654321; but immediately I change back again.The way to do it is to have a record in your password db of the hashes of each user's last N passwords.
Not a serious expert, but: Bad policy? (Keeping unnecessary histories of *anything* would tend to weaken security. Wouldn't it?)
BTW, how do you do that?AFAIK you can't, at least with files backend (but that's a different issue).