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From: woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Adobe PPD files
Summary: password
Message-ID: <17422@rpp386.cactus.org>
Date: 8 Dec 89 13:41:02 GMT
References: <1025@maxim.erbe.se> <17380@rpp386.cactus.org> <2140@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Organization: River Parishes Programming, Plano, TX
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In article <2140@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>, piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) writes:
> 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 :=),...
> -- 
> Piet* van Oostrum, Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University,
> Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands.
> Telephone: +31-30-531806   Uucp:   uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!piet
> Telefax:   +31-30-513791   Internet:  piet@cs.ruu.nl   (*`Pete')

yes, it is a very silly thing.  It should not have been a part of Postscript
in the first place.