Re: More PTFs to fix sign-on password exposure -- MIDRANGE-L

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Al,

> 3.      To see a password in the clear, as referenced by this bug, you
must have:
>         a.      Enough authority to run DMPSYSOBJ.
>         b.      Enough knowledge to find this "needle in the haystack".

Wrong.

There was a nice little RPG program posted that anyone could compile and
run...DMPSYSOBJ was just one way of doing it.


> 4. If this were a Micro$oft problem, it clearly would have been fixed
within
> two years (with luck).

Wrong.

Microsoft are very, very active in fixing security issues rapidly.

There was someother stuff you made up but I can't be bothered to pursue
them.



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