Re: database password

From: Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bortel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 10:11:10 +0200
Message-ID: <f2jn24$ofb$1@news3.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>

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joel garry schreef:
> On May 16, 10:38 pm, Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bor..._at_gmail.com>
> wrote:

>> joel garry schreef:
>>
>>> Well, I suppose you could do that with the alias.  Don't you need a
>>> way to change the passwords periodically anyways?
>> That's the reason why 'you cannot change the password on that account':
>> all the scripts that rely on it...
>>

>
> Anyone on a unix box that doesn't know the find command probably
> should go... Ah, never mind. Should learn it. Yeah, that's what I
> meant to say.
>
> jg
> --
> @home.com is bogus.
> "New Zealand's provinces were abolished in November 1876, but many
> North American web sites ask for my state or province. I know which
> one Wellingtonwas in, and I duly tell the inquirers, but what do they
> do with data 130 years out of date?" - John Harper
>

You mean the grep command, I suppose?
Also find has bugs, I found... (HP-UX 11.23/Itanium!)

I used quotes to indicate it was someone's argument not to change the password abc for user abc into something less obvious - you do not know what will break ("If it ain't broke, don't fix it")
- --
Regards,
Frank van Bortel

Top-posting is one way to shut me up...
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