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Any system admins here?...humorous email

ridetoofast

scarred, broken and drunk
Mar 31, 2002
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true or not...quite funny


Many years ago I was acting as the system administrator for a test system in
a large publicly held company. Periodically I would receive a call from
someone who had not accessed the system recently, forgot their password and
locked themselves out trying to logon. I would look up their password and
unlock the system for them and they would go on their merry way.
One day I received a call from a young lady who was in just such a
predicament. I looked up her password and informed her that it was 'DOME'
and, just to be playful, told her the price for me being gracious enough to
unlock her sign-on was an explanation of the meaning of her password. She
became very embarrassed over the phone and pleaded that she could never
reveal her secret. I of course replied that I would not give her system
access until she did. After negotiating for several minutes she finally
acquiesced but made me promise to never reveal her password meaning to any
of her colleagues to which I gladly agreed.
"Well, what does it mean?", I asked.
She hesitated and then replied, "It's two words."
There was pregnant pause. I unlocked her system and simply said, "Have a
nice day".
 

sanjuro

Tube Smuggler
Sep 13, 2004
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SF
I use dome as my garbage file name all the time, so I didn't get the joke until I read it twice.
 

Tenchiro

Attention K Mart Shoppers
Jul 19, 2002
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New England
Periodically I would receive a call from someone who had not accessed the system recently, forgot their password and locked themselves out trying to logon.
:think:

Unless by periodically he means every 10 minutes, then I don't think this person has ever worked with users accounts.
 

splat

Nam I am
2 problems I have with that

1) As was said before what type of system will take a Password of only 4 chartacters.

2) I have yet to see a system that actually letsthe system admin see what the password is ( unencrypted that is ). yes reset it and unlock it , but not actually show the password to the sys admin.
 

PonySoldier

Monkey
May 5, 2004
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Woodland Park Colorado
splat said:
2 problems I have with that

1) As was said before what type of system will take a Password of only 4 chartacters.

2) I have yet to see a system that actually letsthe system admin see what the password is ( unencrypted that is ). yes reset it and unlock it , but not actually show the password to the sys admin.
:stupid:
 

skyst3alth

Monkey
Apr 13, 2004
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Denver, CO
splat said:
2 problems I have with that

1) As was said before what type of system will take a Password of only 4 chartacters.

2) I have yet to see a system that actually letsthe system admin see what the password is ( unencrypted that is ). yes reset it and unlock it , but not actually show the password to the sys admin.
Unless he was retarded and kept a log of them somewhere.

"I am so smart, s-m-r-t"

-Adam