Yeah, there's a funny story there. I once worked in LAN support, and we were in a massive migration... and by Massive I mean 45,000 computers across 12 locations in the Twin Cities. Part of the process was implementing new standards for Windows NT accounts. Our team lead put together a spreadsheet for a department... roughly 500 Windows login accounts. And, bizarrely, none of them worked. NONE. After several weeks and some seriously pissed off users, it was discovered that his spreadsheet had included an empty space at the end of the passwords... therefore all passwords were "password " and... well... it was ugly for a while.
Eventually it got fixed, but it would have been nice to have a trim(password) for that particular situation. And *sigh* you have a point. Food for thought. Laterz, J On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 23:27:40 +0800, James Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > While the same OS allows spaces in passwords... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jared Rypka-Hauer - CMG, LLC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 8 March 2005 9:21 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: cftransaction... it wasnt safe? > > [snip] > > There are rules for passwords, and "no spaces" be one of mine. I figure if > Microsoft can tell me that "Backup 2/15/2005.zip" is an > illegal file name, then I can tell someone that "my dog has$$fleas " > is an illegal password. > > [snip] > -- Continuum Media Group LLC Burnsville, MN 55337 http://www.web-relevant.com http://cfobjective.neo.servequake.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:197849 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
