Colin Paice wrote: >I remember one test team with a shared userid. They had a scheme where >you incremented the month so JAN became KBO, etc. and had 4 rules. When I >asked how they remembered the password they said look on the top of the >white board, there is a 10 character string. The password is the middle 8 - >just ignore the first and last character. If it had been 8 characters >people would have assumed it was a password - but 10 characters - obviously >not a password.
Nice. Couple of password stories: Back in the day (early 80s) when I worked at University of Waterloo, my dad used the months in Czech. So I had a file on my A-disk (CMS!) with the months, and when I needed his ID for something, I could get on. There were no forced password changes, so he'd get behind a bit periodically, but that just meant I'd try the previous month. He's been dead for 15 years, so I think it's ok to share this scheme. Same job, I was helping a student with some problem and needed to get on his ID, so he told me his password (this was OK then too-times have changed!). He said it was "I LOVE KM" (without the quotes, of course). That worked, we fixed his problem. A couple of hours later a background process in my brain says "Wait.that was 9 characters!" and so I looked at the source code and realized that password parsing stopped at the first space. So his password was really "I". Oops. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
