Re: Password "Hint" Feasibility -- MIDRANGE-L

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At 02:16 PM 11/8/00 -0500, you wrote:

MacWheel99@aol.com wrote:

> When people forget their passwords, we put their sign-ons as password expired
> with user name as the password, then they sign on as that & immediately have
> to change it to somethng they can hopefully remember without writing it down.
> This has got us out of the business of some MIS person assigning passwords.

That's exactly what I do. Except I also chew them out verbally. <g>

The precise term for what you are describing is known as the PEBKAC problem.

This stands for Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair.

Al

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