The minimum age combined with the length of the password history make it
so a password cannot be reused within a given period of time. Say you
keep
26 passwords in the history, and have a minumum age of 2 weeks, this will
not let you use the same password for a minimum of a year.
I haven't done much looking about, but is there support for password
history in Linux?
I've never understood password aging.
If your system is so fragile that it cannot withstand users keeping
their passwords indefinitely, I'd be looking at the systems fragility,
not password rotation.
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