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Slightly related (funny, for me) thing I came across recently. I was looking into why some orgs prevent you from changing the Windows domain password if it has been changed less than 24h ago.

Turns out there's a reason for this: "Setting the number of days to 0 allows immediate password changes. This setting isn't recommended. Combining immediate password changes with password history allows someone to change a password repeatedly until the password history requirement is met and re-establish the original password again." [1]

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pr...



In other words, someone worked out a way to work around our user- and security-hostile password policy and we can't allow that.




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