[net.general] password aging

eric (06/23/82)

	To appriciate these, you have to know that our
computer complex just implemented password aging, at
the command of a supervisor named Don Carter. they are
good.


There once was a young man named Carter
Who said "Let's make breaking in harder"
	So now it's the rage
	To make passwords age;
I think I'll make mine "et2,carter"

Of course, we'll exact restitution:
We'll eliminate password pollution!
	To eliminate schlock,
	We'll change Carter's lock,
To the whole damn U.S. Constitution!

Passwords grow older, forsooth
And the checker is rather uncouth.
	Password rejuvenation
	Requires the location
Of the old password fountain of youth!
		-jmc

With all of this aging of passwords,
These certainly won't be my last words.
	Now, after my login
	I scratch on my noggin,
And enter the damn thing back-asswards.
		-jmc

On his death bed a password named #$%^&*()+
said to his successor @$%^&*()+,
	"If a fellow named don
	dares try to log on,
just tell him to go to !$%^&*()+!!!".
		-jmc


If you now try to log in as "doc",
you'll agree password aging's a crock.
	If you don't believe me,
	just you wait and see.
Go ahead, try to use "solidoc"!

		-doc

The following is an attempt to explain the previous one:

If you use a login generic,
You may find you've cause for despairic!
	If you aren't the first
	You'll find that you're cursed
With a password that's gone geriatric!!!!!

THAT is a real potential problem, folks...
		-ech

KEEP THOSE CARDS AND LETTERS COMIN!