Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently

Diederik de Haas <[email protected]> Fri, 08 Mar 2024 23:09:44 +0100
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From: Diederik de Haas <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2024 23:09:44 +0100
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Organization: Connecting Knowledge
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On Friday, 8 March 2024 19:58:56 CET Philip Hands wrote:
> IMO Having the 'password/passphrase' throughout makes it awkward to
> read, and actually we've got one place where it still just says
> password, and fixing that would make it slightly worse IMO.
> 
> How about dropping the passphrase stuff?

I agree with dropping it. It does look odd and it'll likely raise (more) 
questions then it answers. And most/all people are familiar with password.

Explaining passwords/passphrases is better suited to some educational 
resource.

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