{"id":3013,"date":"2016-03-08T11:32:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T11:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=3013"},"modified":"2016-03-16T15:51:22","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T15:51:22","slug":"changes-to-password-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=3013","title":{"rendered":"Changes to password policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In reaction to the recent attacks on Linux Mint, policies were changed on the forums and community websites, to only accept complex passwords:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>With a minimum length of 10 characters<\/li>\n<li>Which include both lower and upper case characters<\/li>\n<li>And which include digits and symbols<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note: This post was edited on March 16th. The ability to set custom passwords on the community website was initially removed and it is now available again. Many thanks for your feedback.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In reaction to the recent attacks on Linux Mint, policies were changed on the forums and community websites, to only accept complex passwords: With a minimum length of 10 characters Which include both lower and upper case characters And which include digits and symbols Note: This post was edited on March 16th. The ability to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3013"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3016,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013\/revisions\/3016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}