RE: Need to generate passwords

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob, this is a problem?   <vbg>

Actually, during my sojourn at a certain large computer  maker, somewhere
between green and indigo in the rainbow, this kind of scheme was not
unheard of. Especially in regard to DST users and passwords - how many
times do you disable QSECOFR's DST profile when half a dozen folks can use
it? Of course, the systems in question were on totally private nteworks,
locked in subbasements, access controlled by security badges, and it was
understood what could and could not be done.

Regards

Vern

At 01:24 PM 10/28/02 -0500, you wrote:
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> We had a 'former' systems employee who wrote a routine on his PC.
> Everytime his password reached the expiration interval, it would change it
> 32 times, back to the original.
> Another who used his user id and tacked two numbers on it XYZ01, XYZ02,
> XYZ03 - just kept rotating it every time it expired.  Crud like this is
> why IBM has all those password rules available to make sure that letters
> are different in each position, and stuff like that.
>
> Rob Berendt
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