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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 11:19:46 EST
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- From: Patrick=Smoker%Admin%Ag@ADMIN.AGAD.PURDUE.EDU
- Subject: re: Passwords - Why Bother!
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- >Find a Macintosh (1.2 or 1.3b6 software)
- >If it is already logged in, select the Chooser and click on logout.
- >Now you are logged out, click on login this will present you with a
- >login screen complete with the name of the user already thoughtfully
- >typed in for you.
- >Randomly type a few characters on the keyboard, and press return.
- >Wait a few seconds for VINES to inform you that you are logged in.
- >
- >This is fully repeatable!
-
- Paul:
-
- I can not duplicate this using 1.3 with patch 5.00(5)-CY-1 applied. When
- following your instructions, I get the message...
-
- "Invalid username/password pair or server is
- unavailable"
-
- I repeated it a dozen times with the same result. Perhaps the problem was
- quietly fixed with the CY-1 patch. Is it applied on you system?
-
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