On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Phil Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Ken Hume > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>MANY years ago, before we migrated to RACF on MVS, we used a security package >>on VSE that was a little "weak". We could actually see the users password. >>One morning a programmer, Mike Austin, walked into my office and stated that >>he had forgotten his password while on a one day vacation. I had him step out >>of my office since he would be able to see >other folks passwords when I >>looked for his. I opened the dataset and found his password. It was....... >>A >>I assume he set it that way so he would not forget it. >>Fortunately we went to MVS and RACF shortly after that. > > That's quite the memory he had(n't)!
I can top that. On the Windows side a person called in because they forgot their Windows login id (not password). At that time it was first initial plus last name. How could they have forgotten who they were, but remember where they worked? -- Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
