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Palindrome passwords disallowed—why?

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Mar 15, 202611727 views
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Problem

I tried to change a Linux password to "sitonapotatopanotis" and got this error: Why does this rule exist?

Error Output

BAD PASSWORD: is a palindrome

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Because a 20-character palindromic password is only as secure as a 10-character password -- there's essentially no extra entropy in the last 10 characters. So you're getting a false sense of security from having a long password.

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