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Overnight Hope-a-Dope

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Walter L. Newton1/30/2009 8:24:17 am PST

re: #1060 wahabicorridor

I saw that story earlier this morning. In the last Unix environment I worked in, TWO people had to share admin privleges. Neither of them knew the whole password. One knew the characters in the odd numbered positions, the other the even.

I also don’t know that the tech details are accurate - ‘zero’ is not NULL - which, if memery serves is what a very particular unix command that wipes out everything produces. And no, I’m not telling you what it is.

What am I missing here? What tech details? In the article? I didn’t see anything in the article about “zero’s” or “null’s.”