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Just got this email:
This is a reminder that your Epic logon ID and Password will be changing
on March 30th. Your new ID and Password will be the same as your Network
ID and Password. This ID and Password is also known as your UCHD ID and
Password and sometimes known as your Email ID and Password. Please make
a note that after the maintenance outage on March 30th you will be using
this ID and Password to log into Epic.
The sad part is that this makes perfect sense to me.
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Did you get the memo about the cover sheets for the TPS report?
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It could be far worse.
A company I used to work for mandated that all passwords had to be changed every 90 days, and only from an approved list of randomly generated strings.
Needless to say, everybody carried their current passwords around on a business card in their wallets.
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ours change every 3 months but we can pick our own...
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Every 90 days here too.
5 years ago we had Panther, authenticating via LDAP on Xserves and AppleTalk printers. LDAP would sometimes fail but the worst that would happen would be you'd have to reboot your Mac.
Today, we run Active Directory on Tiger but using Centrify to authenticate the login back to a Windows box introduces a plethora of hellish foibles. No AppleTalk and now Bonjour has also been blocked, because our LAN's DNS is as good as useless. First time I've ever used a Mac that couldn't browse for printers, but that's "progress" for you when IT remains Apple-ignorant.
Ironically, amid all the "we're going to be switching to PCs any day now" rumors, the login issues are moving us to Leopard (and maybe Intel Macs) because half the problem is Tiger, not the Windows server.
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I just use 1234 for everything (
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Our company only forces network password changes every 6 months. But your voicemail is 1 month. Makes no sense...
Are they that concerned with people breaking into voicemail?
