Password

I tried to change my password today and got this:

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Sorry, you may not use a password that you have used in the past 3600 days.

Please go back and try again.

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That's ridiculous, over 9 years before you can re-use a password. Why??

Because you're not meant to reuse passwords at all :P

that is stupid. let us reuse passwords please :D

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Originally Posted by nvrspk4

Because you're not meant to reuse passwords at all :P

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For once I agree...

Safety risk. :)

It is a safety risk as others have pointed out. It is easy to make a new one anyway even based on it if you have to.
Example:
Previous Password could of been gangsta1
New Password could be g4ngst41

Plus it would be harder for people to guess it then anyway as it is using a mixture of letters and numbers. Trust me it's not that bad, on another forum every couple of weeks I was made to change my password and that couldn't of been a previous one either so be thankful you can keep your current one for a while. :P

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Originally Posted by Favourtism

It is a safety risk as others have pointed out. It is easy to make a new one anyway even based on it if you have to.
Example:
Previous Password could of been gangsta1
New Password could be g4ngst41

Plus it would be harder for people to guess it then anyway as it is using a mixture of letters and numbers. Trust me it's not that bad, on another forum every couple of weeks I was made to change my password and that couldn't of been a previous one either so be thankful you can keep your current one for a while. :P

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Hardly, you just take the old password and recycle it and put it together again using a mixture of numbers instead of words and vice-versa. You would need a completely random password to be safe "/

I think for forum members that are not staff we don't need to be this strict, and allow them to keep using the same pass.
But I don't know if this is easy to change, it has to be this strict for the staff accounts for sure.

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Originally Posted by GommeInc

Hardly, you just take the old password and recycle it and put it together again using a mixture of numbers instead of words and vice-versa. You would need a completely random password to be safe "/

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Its an eample
Say he wanted a new password then he could think gansta1 but use g4ngst41

Other than mods and above, I don't see why anyone would need that amount of security.

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Originally Posted by Jazza

Other than mods and above, I don't see why anyone would need that amount of security.

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Its honestly not that much security, to force you to change your password once a month? I have to change mine every 14 days :( I just use a random password generator.

I believe its once a month for members right?