TFP is bad at math
 

Just got a notice that my password was 14,466 days old and needed to be changed. Really? My password is 39 1/2 years old?

Wow, that's a fun paradox.

I haven't had any issues, but there was an update to the software today..maybe something is still not quite done or fixed.

Yep, my password was also rather 'old'.

Mine's about 4.5 years old.

Mine too.

Me too.

Mine was only 783 days old. Which is probably right, since I joined in January 2008.

Your passwords are all old farts. Pfft.

I got the same notice, some thousand of days less. So I changed it as requested, browsed for a while, wrote a response to a thread, clicked the preview button, and POOF!!!! it all disappeared into electronville, :expressionless: because now when I log in, it doesn't keep me logged in!
What happened to the old "If it works, DON'T FIX IT" axiom?:confused: Can't I just change my own password if I think it has been compromised.
Or do passwords now have a "born on date" and eventually expire like stale beer?:mad:

Lindy

Anyone allowing beer to go stale must never be allowed to have beer :thumbsup:

Not to squash the frivolity, but password aging is just good security policy. And good security policy is often at odds with user convenience. As a user, I prefer no password aging, because it means I don't have to remember shit. As an admin, I insist on password aging and will bend to no user whining about it.

:bowdown::bowdown::bowdown::bowdown::bowdown::bowdown:
Well, fine. But it is annoying when it just falls out of a blue sky.

Lindy

My password was 1,033 days old...

Sounds about right.

I had to fix some things earlier today for security purposes and to make sure that all accounts are okay, I aged everyone's passwords age over 365 days. I'm sorry that I had to do it, but it had to be done in order to make sure that no one was compromised.

Your password is 1737 days old, and has therefore expired.

Is it really that old? Daaaaamn..

Change your password and then leave, come back change the password back to what it was and who's going to know? The password's age would start as day 1, right?

pan6467: this is for the security of the site and its users. It's not our responsibility if you do that and it turns out your password is compromised and someone else uses your account to get you banned. Everyone, including the mods, has to put up with the same headache of changing their passwords, but it's better for site security.

passwords, like underwear should be changed regularly ;)

so you're saying around once a week??

Sure, but there's also no using the same password for X amount of days. Sorry pan....

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/general...ange-them.html

Whether it needs it or not.

I prefer to free ball it, so can I keep my password the same? ;)

I suppose it is for the best, just going to drive my browser and I nuts...lol.

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Great thread and article, thanks for linking it Cyn.

I will say this though. While I used to use the same 2 passwords for everything, I have found myself changing the passwords usually on a monthly basis to my most important and serious sites like my bank, my email, and Facebook. I just never thought that anyone would care to hack the password here.