Forgot about our JDgc4 (John Doe got canned 4) or DFgjdc (Darn Fred got john doe canned) prefixes.
Our director's name really was Fred....though months after he got rid of one the SA's in our group, he was then told he's not supposed to be leading by intimidation, and was forced to retire. Late one night in front of his superiors, he called us and demanded that we drop everything and come in to the office to deal with a system outage, or he would fire us and take care of it himself. We were already online working on the system outage...and didn't feel it necessary to stop for about 30 minutes to make him feel important. So, we told him fire us. After we hung up, he asked "how am I supposed to manage people if they aren't afraid of me.....". Might be a bit more than 30 minutes, since that's how far away from work I am when I can see where I'm going....plus I would need to put on clothes and stuff to go in and work.... On 5/15/2011 6:56 PM, Tracy Reed wrote: > On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 10:49:27PM -0400, Greg R spake thusly: >> On Sat, 14 May 2011 19:44:42 -0400, Tracy Reed <[email protected]> >>> What do you mean by "root password prefix"? >> I ran into something like this before. The password is an acronym with >> substitutions: >> >> "Fred is no longer working here April 9th" = F1NLw#49 > Implemented that way, it really doesn't seem so bad and I do similar although > I > wonder how many then go on to use that same "secure" password on multiple > systems. > > I was thinking it might be something like what one shop I am familiar with > does: > > "Fred Is Fired" = FIF > -- Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. - W0LKC - Senior Unix Systems Administrator For: Enterprise Server Technologies (EST) -- & SafeZone Ally Snail: Computing and Telecommunications Services (CTS) Kansas State University, 109 East Stadium, Manhattan, KS 66506-3102 Phone: (785) 532-4916 - Fax: (785) 532-3515 - Email: [email protected] Web: http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~lkchen - Where: 11 Hale Library _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
