[techtalk] logins

[Telsa Gwynne]

On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 03:54:11PM -0700 or thereabouts, venable at cats.ucsc.edu wrote:
> If the person's login is all numbers, is it  possible that the 
> num lock key is causing the problem?  Or the difference between
> the regular keys and the keypad?  (I'm not sure this second one
> will make  a difference.) (I've seen a person using a terminal 
> that they aren't used to, and the num lock  key is not set as 
> they expected causing some momentary confusion)

Reminds me of the time I saw someone telneting to their account 
somewhere else when using a rather dodgy terminal. They became
most perplexed as they couldn't log in. I suddenly realised what 
was going on. "Is there a number three in that password?" "Yeah,
why?" "The three-key's broken." Luckily there was a numberpad as
well as the more usual row.

And the friend who thought a (usually) unused control-code would
be a good idea in his password. Worked fine until he was calling
that system from a machine where that control character actually
had a meaning.

Eek. Almost perfect right-justification there. I shall avoid the
temptation to reword the first two lines to fit :) 

Telsa. 

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