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Confused about Password History
I am trying to use Password History to assess the potential risk from a compromised password. I have done some experiments, and it seems that the specific entries in "Password History" sometimes show...
@lucasd
The Password field has no time stamps, by itself. Only the record has a created and modified date.
But, there is a passwordHistory list, which does store the previous passwords and timestamps. This list is empty when you create a record. When you change a password, the record's modification time is recorded along with the old password. When you do this again, the same thing happens.
The only time when this is not possible, is for the first entry added to the history list, which always gets the date of modification. This image showing the data structures for an initial Login entry, along with two subsequent changes, should help:
