60 Day Password?

[Ozme52]

Are you sure? I had to change mine again and it wouldn't let me go back to the previous password. Hard to believe the software would do that but still let you reuse the current one.

Okay, I believe you. Someone slipped up there, though.

Absolutely sure. I've done it twice so far. What can I tell you. The first time I 'challenged' an operating system, lo these 30+ years ago, I brought down an IBM mainframe using UNIT=VIO for a quick sort. No one believed me. I had done it twice over the course of the day and brought it down twice. Not one to believe to much in coincidence, I called the operations center, was told it was impossible, and counted down for them prior to pushing the ENTER button and bringing it down a third time. Only THEN did someone look to see how VIO had been implemented... and yeah... that was me.

I tired earlier today to "change" my password to the same one and the system would not allow me to, I recieved a message that I had to select a NEW password

Seeeee.. part of the problem! The software doesn't even understand itself!

(And I get the same message, "you can't reuse a password," etc.)

I guess I'm special... or a real wizard... or at least a real computer wiz.

I don't get why this is such a big issue. If you set your password as hippo, then just put it as hippo1, then next time hippo2 and on. It's a minor inconvenience, but no big deal, eh? Surely you have other passwords on other sites... shrugs... Or just do what I do and scream at the stupid program for making me reset it. Then I just change it from hippo to hippo1 and back to hippo again.

Actually delia, a proper password change routine will keep a list of your last 12 (monthly) passwords and make you use something new. Not only that, but it will check for partially repeated strings to disallow just changing the numeric part of the password. No keyboard strings (like 'qwerty'), no repeated letters, and no 'apparent dates.' LOL

Programmers are like dominants. Evil.