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by SoleilAbsolu 57 days ago
Thanks for "Helping us understand" via Columbo's timeless wisdom. ;-)

I'm in charge of IT for a 120 person org, anything that's a barrier to copying and pasting passwords just encourages simple password re-use, and the dreaded "laptop festooned with password Post-Its".

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No fooling, I had to work on a Sun workstation in a lab. The lab instructor had installed his own password on it, so I had to guess it. (well, there are other ways, of course, but I didn't need one.)

There was a small framed print on the wall of some character from opera or mythology.

BINGO, I had the password within a minute.