LLMs
Hi Luis, thank you for contributing to the Debian Wiki! May I ask, have you used large language models/LLMs/AI (e.g. Chat GPT, etc.) to write some content? —jmtd, 2025-03-03
Hi Luis, thank fyou for continuing to contribute to the wiki. I'd really appreciate it if you could reply to my question above. —jmtd, 2025-04-16
If he won't, I will. My intuition says "yes", because of regurgitated misconceptions like "users should regularly change their password". —?miegiel, 2025-04-26
There is several case scenarios that password expiration are used and useful. I put the warning, quote: "IMPORTANT NOTE: It's recommended organizations to not force regular password expiry." I could add the technicality that it was recommended by NIST and when, but what is the point of doing it? Historical purpose?
If a user is searching on how to change a password, is explicitly there, and if a system administrator is searching for password expiry, is also there. I tried to put on relatively easy way to digest for basic users, with some added descriptive functions for system administrators.
Case scenarios:
?SysAdmin gives temporary access to a user, providing the password himself (i have done it countless times on the last 20 years, government level)
- Company policy
- Webhosting on user registration (i integrate clusters of debian servers with various services with ISPConfig)
Not always is about security per se, or recomendations from NIST or in my specific case, ITSG-33. If you don't agree, cut away. For me, password expiration has its place and i used it in the past. But ultimately, for who this article is for? I would suggest it should be, from basic users to more advanced ones. Leaving a group of users out is just wrong. By the way there is updated NIST guidelines for 2025 regarding password management. I would like to emphasize that it's just that, guidelines, while in reality, every single place i worked for, has unique policies regarding to security. 2 cents for what it is worth. —LuisFreitas, 2025-04-30
PS: i'm using my company wiki were me and my staff make our notes and keep our procedures and tutorials and helpers updated. Our notes. I tried to pass from from our (private) MediaWiki, but debian wiki markup syntax is slightly different.
Addendum: AdditionalPHPVersions. Comment please.