Linda, Proving we mainframes are a pretty smart bunch ...
Scott ford www.identityforge.com Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. - Chinese Proverb On Jan 22, 2013, at 6:01 PM, Linda <linda.lst...@comcast.net> wrote: > A bunch of years ago, I took my first UNIX class at the local university. The > instructor was pretty biased against mainframes in general. > > One of the first assignments was to set a password in the class UNIX system > that she could not crack using cracker software. The password also had to > have a published meaning. Beating the cracker carried bonus pounts equal to a > midterm. Having had enough of her anti-mainframe rants, I used a documented > acronym from the EREP manual. One other student used one from the VTAM > manual. Out of about 150 students across several sections of the class, we > were the only two to beat the cracker. So sweet - especially the part > presenting to the class what the password was and passing around its > documentation. :))) > > Linda > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jan 22, 2013, at 12:52 PM, Tony Harminc <t...@harminc.net> wrote: > >> On 22 January 2013 09:10, Bill Ashton <bill00ash...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> One of my favorites is lollipop - 4 characters, one hand... >> >> There are more English words that are left hand only (on a QWERTY >> keyboard) than right. >> >> Fraser Street. Westward a great vast sea started. Awed, we gazed >> seaward - waves crested, ebbed. Brave crews steered sea craft. Dead >> crabs waded, red beavers read. A fact: few vegetated, wasted treats >> abed, at a Fraser Street address. >> >> Careers: a barber, a caterer, seafarers, racers, seers, weavers, a fab >> cabaret. Beef stew (added cabbage) served at a cafe attracted a few >> sad starved tattered beggars. >> >> Etc. >> >> I'll leave the right hand version to someone else. >> >> Tony H. >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
