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From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Adobe PPD files
Message-ID: <2140@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Date: 7 Dec 89 08:53:18 GMT
References: <1025@maxim.erbe.se> <17380@rpp386.cactus.org>
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Reply-To: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
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In-reply-to: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)

In article <17380@rpp386.cactus.org> woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker) writes:
`DON'T change the serverdict password.  If for some reason you forget it,
`you will have to send the controller off to get it recovered.  Secondly,
`may aplications depend on server password to be the default of 0 and will
`flat out fail. ...

Well, isn't that a very silly thing: a password that you shouldn't change
and should always have the default value. What if one of our students
decide to change it? Which they can do if the password is 0. It shouldn't
be too difficult to keep the password around: write it on a piece of paper
and lock it somewhere. Keep it with your Laserprinter bill, with your tax
administration, write it in your will :=),...
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