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From: abennett@athena.mit.edu (Andrew Bennett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Laser Printer Password Question
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Date: 27 Sep 90 16:01:00 GMT
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In article <7160.2701a77e@uwovax.uwo.ca> rcorless@uwovax.uwo.ca writes:
>
>I'll give some context for the last question so people can perhaps
>help with the real problem.  It recently came to the attention of
>our network manager that there was a worm/virus/trojan horse around
>that screwed up laser printers by changing the password for the
>Postscript engine.  The password defaults to 0 and the virus relies
>on this.  So, we changed the password.
>
>Our IBM printing software we have adjusted to this change.  No-one
>here knows how to adjust the Macintosh software to allow us to send
>the new password to the printer so our files will print.  Since the
>laser driver is a centralized construction, this ought to be easy
>to do, provided you know where to look, which we don't.
> 


The laserwriter has a password?

Can someone tell me more, please?

-Drew


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