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I run Perl Training Australia [perltraining.com.au].
I help with Melbourne Perl Mongers.
I spend an awful lot of time talking about Perl, and have had my picture in the Australian newspapers with a camel. That's rather scary.
Password lesson for the day
Lesson for the day
When somebody provides you with a password for a system, sit down with them and make sure that it works. Especially if they're going away for six weeks. Don't just ask if they're sure that's the correct one, have them watch you as they try it.
Better still, install ssh keys on the machine once you have access.
I have a client who's been handed to me, and my first experience with them has been "Oh dear, that password doesn't work. I don't have access to your system."
We do have physical access to the machine, so if we need to it may be possible to boot the machine from CD and directly change
The good news is that a person who may know the password will be back on Monday. Let's hope that solves things.
Or is it a BUG?"
"Let's call it an accidental feature. :-)"
--Larry Wall in <6909@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Similar thing happened to me (Score:1)
Let's just say that some fonts make it really hard to distinguish between a lowercase 'L', a capital 'I', a '1'...
Fortunately, there was no one in vacation :-)