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> From: "Josh Lothian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 14:37:04 -0400
>
> I know what can go wrong, now. On a whim, I tried changing out keyboards on
> the masquerade machine. VOILA! It turns out that the keyboard I was using
> is going bad, or something. I think it may be the motherboard, since the
> new keybaord also has problems (it will occasionally repeat characters that
> I type). So, it turns out that one of the keys in my password wasn't
> working right, so when I had entered the password initally for the user I
> created, it was different from what I thought it was. Hence, when I tried
> to telnet in the internal LAN, the password I was using was incorrect. Same
> thing when I was telnetting *out*. The old keyboard wasn't typing what I
> thought it was, and again, wrong password. I went back and changed the
> passwords using the new keyboard, and everything is working like it should
> now. Thanks for the help anyway.
Did you ever hear the story about the guy who could log in if he was sitting
down, but not if he was standing up?
Apparently it took hours to diagnose this one. It turned out that the 'n'
and 'm' key caps were swapped on the keyboard. When he sat down, he touch
typed; when he stood up, he hunted and pecked. He had either an 'n' or an 'm' in
his password but not in his username.
This may not be a true story, but it should be.
Chris
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