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From: mark@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Mark Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Password on PS-laserprinter ??
Message-ID: <9590001@hpcilzb.HP.COM>
Date: 6 Jun 90 22:50:48 GMT
References: <90149.162400LK-AP@finou.oulu.fi>
Organization: HP Design Tech Center - Santa Clara, CA
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Get a load of this.  A guy from Finland asks if there's any way to
change the password in his PostScript printer, and he gets this helpful
reply from someone with a rather inflated sense of self-importance:

>There is a little routine that does it. I have it, but have not
>posted it over the net, due to the fact that you can rather badly
>mess up a printer with it.  Not only will it change passwords, but
>it will do several other interesting routines.  I make it available
>under the following:
>
>Foriegn users:
>
>Email me a message from root. (Yes I know it is easy to fugga-boo)
>Local (US) people:
>
>send me an official request on department, institutional, or
>company letterhead, signed by an administrative person with
>responsiblilty.  In addition email me a request.  I have adopted this
>procedure, to try to limit liablilty if someone should mis-use the
>routine.  Fortunatly, you can undo anything that has been done, but
>I'd rather not be responsible for some malicious person using it.
>I won't accept laser printed stationary (mmmm   to easy to fake.... 8->>)
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Holy Cow!  Are you going to analyze my handwriting too?

>Woody Baker
>Rt.1 Box I
>Manor, Tx. 78653

Who the hell are you, the printer police?  Maybe I should send a
notarized letter signed by George Bush.  Jeez, buddy, get a life.

Mark Turner
mark@hpdtc.hp.com