Re: root account

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On Mon, 2022-07-25 at 18:50 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> there's no point in expiring the password to an account 
> you're using yourself...

I see no point in ever expiring any password, unless you're auto-
locking out sacked employees because you're too incompetent to do the
job properly when they get sacked.

Making people pick new passwords means they're going to write them down
so they don't forget them, or keep forgetting them and ask for admin
help, or pick stupidly simple ones.  If the account has been hacked,
changing the password is too late.  If it hasn't beeen hacked, there's
no point.  The next password someone picks might be guessed immediately
just by pure chance just as easily as the existing password.

It's just one of those exercises in manifest stupidity and bureaucracy
for the sake of it.  Oooh, ooh, it's possible for us to make a rule
about resetting passwords, so we will.

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