reusing passwords

[Rahul Dhesi]

I accused VAX/VMS of:
>> ...if you mistype your password a number of times, it is
>> quite likely that what you type will be recorded in hard-copy on the
>> operator's console.

In article <2500 at codas.att.com> mikel at codas.att.com (Mikel Manitius) writes:
>We soon learned that often over-anxious users type their password at
>the login prompt, resulting it it's showing up on the console.

That is true, but in the case of VAX/VMS, you don't have to
accidentally type your password at the "Username:" prompt for it to
appear on the console.  It's enough to be unable to log in a number of
times, and this helpful operating system will make a console record of
the username *and* the password that were typed.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi