Change of Password? (1 Viewer)

[santaslayer]

Is this routinely done at UoW or does this look like a hoax?

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[ogmzergrush]

It's routine, I think I've been forced by that to change mine two or three times so far.

It's also amazingly fussy about what it will and will not accept as a password
"No, this is based on your previous password"
"No, this is based on your birthday combined with address"
"No, this is based on a dictionary word"
"No, this is a combination of your user name with date of birth"
"No, this does not include at least two of the three character types (digits, letters, symbols"

It caused me an immense amount of trouble. Then to make matters worse, in frustration I entered 'qwerty' and the stupid thing accepted it! Then I had to front up to ITS and say that I had accidentally set a ridiculous password and ask if it could be reset

The moral to this story is: Don't enter stupid passwords assuming that it will not accept them!

 

[adsta]

Yeah, it's a pain in the ass changing passwords. Think we pretty much have to do it once a session. I remember the first time I changed it, I was sitting there for like 5 mins because it wouldn't accept them (for the reasons stated in the above post).

 

[MiuMiu]

oh man I had a really good one too!

Lucky u posted that, I never check my mirapoint mail!

 

[Ninga]

Do the smart thing, use 2 passwords, and just go from one to the other and back again

 

[Ziff]

Hahaha I remember these messages! Except I was 12, it was Dad's account and we were using telnet.

 

[Raiks]

Yeah, its routine... but you can have 2 passwords and alternate between them everytime your password needs to be changed, it makes things much simpler.

Although one semester I was severely fustrated with the password system and I typed in 'itscanblowme' and it accepted it.... I wasn't game to go to ITS and try and get it changed.

 

[ogmzergrush]

Although one semester I was severely fustrated with the password system and I typed in 'itscanblowme' and it accepted it.... I wasn't game to go to ITS and try and get it changed.

Very glad to hear I'm not the only person who had experienced difficulty/frustration with it, and did something 'clever' as a result. I thought I must have just been a clown or something

 

[santaslayer]

Okies, thanks..

GMRASO: I know your password, now tell me your user name.

 

[jm1234567890]

Yeah, its routine... but you can have 2 passwords and alternate between them everytime your password needs to be changed, it makes things much simpler.

Although one semester I was severely fustrated with the password system and I typed in 'itscanblowme' and it accepted it.... I wasn't game to go to ITS and try and get it changed.

can't you change the password any time with the "passwd" command in unix?

 

[Raiks]

can't you change the password any time with the "passwd" command in unix?

Pfft.... beats me. *shrugs*

 

[Ninga]

Whats a unix?!