Re: Freescale doesn't want to be bothered

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 22:17:46 +0100, Pooh Bear wrote:

> Charles Edmondson wrote:

>> Password history goes back to EVERY password you have ever used. After
>> 6years, that leaves out a lot of letter sequences! I don't know how
>> the
>> long timers with 15 years manage to do it!
>
> They don't call the IT staff 'network nazis' for nothing you know.
>

Hey! Let's not tar all of IT with the same brush - at the company
where I sit, I _am_ the IT department. ;-) It was fun while learning
to properly set up a Linux system, where the docs would say, "Check
with your system administrator". I can't do that! I _AM_ the system
administrator! ;-)

I didn't know how to arrange it so that they'd have the same username/
password on the Samba server, without bringing each one into my office,
or having them tell me their password, so I just created a user "user"
with password "pass", and trained them to use it: "Oh, that's how you
log onto the server." "Oh, uh, OK."

I've been using the same password for about ten years now, except on
paypal and my bank, because those things actually make a difference,
and they're the only things of mine anybody'd be interested in.

Security through obscurity! :-)

Cheers!
Rich

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