On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 09:28:07AM -0600, Robin Laing wrote: > This is an interesting thought. When one bank that we used changed > from UNIX to Windows servers, the passwords became case insensitive > and would not accept some characters. We raised this with the bank > and they didn't seem to concerned. A bank I used switch systems and changed everyone's username to be six-letters-of-last-name+year-of-birth and set the passwords to last four digits of social security number. I called up and complained, but they didn't see a problem with this even after I explained very carefully. Needless to say, I switched banks. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 80 degrees Fahrenheit.
