IT follies
May. 15th, 2012 03:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
herveusBecause of "heightened security", passwords now expire in 30 days instead of 90.
Oooookay.
The system nags you about a "soon to expire" password for the last 14 days of the period.
Oooookay.
That means that either you change you password every two weeks to shut it up, or you have to affirmatively dismiss the warning, which, by the way, causes the authentication dialog to reappear in the browser. And that will be happening two weeks out of four. Brilliant.
I'm having a hard time seeing how this enhances anything other than irritation on the part of users.
Oooookay.
The system nags you about a "soon to expire" password for the last 14 days of the period.
Oooookay.
That means that either you change you password every two weeks to shut it up, or you have to affirmatively dismiss the warning, which, by the way, causes the authentication dialog to reappear in the browser. And that will be happening two weeks out of four. Brilliant.
I'm having a hard time seeing how this enhances anything other than irritation on the part of users.
