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Originally Posted by DuncanWatson
That problem relates to IT departments mandating 90 day changes of passwords with no repeats for the last 10 passwords and a mandate of 90% change for the new password as compared to the last 10 used. As well as mixed numbers, letters and punctuation.
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Yes! All of those rules were in place for all of my passwords in the govt job I just retired from, and I had...let me count...NINE different accounts in use on a daily basis. Sometimes I would try to use the same one for several different accounts, but they eventually get out of sync when you have incidents of being locked out and having to reset your password earlier than the 90 day limit. Yes, I resorted to keeping them on a piece of paper in my wallet, which I know is a bad idea, but better than one of my co-workers who eventually just gave up and kept his in his Rolodex. I didn't mind the 90 day changes, but the rule about not being able to re-use any of the last 10 passwords made it completely unmanageable without resorting to keeping it written down somewhere.