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People and their usernames/passwords
Posted on 1/9/15 at 1:17 pm
Posted on 1/9/15 at 1:17 pm
What is wrong with people?
I go out the other day and setup a couple of RDP sessions. The user accounts are AD, I had a default password set, and set to require password change on use.
On the first login, I put the credentials, and I let the user pick their password.
2 days later, I send my coworker out there because they're complaining nothing is working.
1.) He doesn't know the password he chose. I had to login to the server and reset it.
2.) I get a call later, he needs to know what his QuickBooks login is. I took the fricking data file from his computer and restored it to their server. The login is whatever the frick he's been using for years.
This shite happens ALL THE TIME. You let users assign their own passwords then they don't know them.
How do some of these people get through daily life?
I go out the other day and setup a couple of RDP sessions. The user accounts are AD, I had a default password set, and set to require password change on use.
On the first login, I put the credentials, and I let the user pick their password.
2 days later, I send my coworker out there because they're complaining nothing is working.
1.) He doesn't know the password he chose. I had to login to the server and reset it.
2.) I get a call later, he needs to know what his QuickBooks login is. I took the fricking data file from his computer and restored it to their server. The login is whatever the frick he's been using for years.
This shite happens ALL THE TIME. You let users assign their own passwords then they don't know them.
How do some of these people get through daily life?
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Posted on 1/9/15 at 1:22 pm to Casty McBoozer
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What is wrong with people?
Hell, why complain? Sounds like job security to me...
Posted on 1/9/15 at 1:29 pm to Casty McBoozer
I can sort of sympathize with the older folks having to remember passwords. My dad writes all of his passwords down. My memory kind of sucks, too. So it's really annoying when certain work-related services make me change my password every couple of months and it can't be a previously used password. I've been using multiple variations of the password I came up with when I was 12. It has capital letters and numbers, but nooo, now we have sites requiring symbols as well. At this point I probably have a dozen passwords, so if I forget which one I used for a particular service, roll the dice and hope it doesn't lock me out.
I use LastPass now. Which just makes the problem worse because I have less of an incentive to try to remember the passwords I use.
I use LastPass now. Which just makes the problem worse because I have less of an incentive to try to remember the passwords I use.
This post was edited on 1/9/15 at 1:31 pm
Posted on 1/9/15 at 3:25 pm to Casty McBoozer
Oh yeah, I feel your pain. Like someone said earlier thank goodness for these kind of people though. They keep me getting a paycheck. It is hard to have to remember different passwords. I have to since I am in IT but if I wasn't I would probably suck at it as well.
Posted on 1/9/15 at 7:19 pm to Casty McBoozer
Users are losers.
Posted on 1/11/15 at 4:58 pm to Casty McBoozer
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What is wrong with people?
I work in support and I work with the general public.
You have no idea how bad it can get.
We will have clients call in because they cannot use Netflix. We will remote in and of course, there's nothing wrong with their PC, it's just that they don't remember their password. So while I'm remoted in, I'll just help them reset their password. After clicking the reset link... they don't remember their email password to check for the Netflix reset email. So then we have to reset that too. That reset email is set to an alternative email, but of course they don't remember that (or the security questions either) either. Eventually I have to tell them to call their email provider to get the damn password reset. If they do remember one and we start resetting the passwords, you can guarantee by the time we reset all three of these passwords, one of them will be forgotten and have to be reset twice. It fricking happens all the time.
When using LogMeIn Rescue to work on a client's PC, we need to have them enter the password into the Rescue applet so that it runs as a system service and auto-logs in the technician if the technician reboots the system so that the technician can work on the computer without the client physically being there. A lot of times clients at this point will forget their login password and we have to physically drive out there. Or they'll say they don't have a password when there's clearly one set.
People are fricking dumb.
Posted on 1/12/15 at 6:43 am to Casty McBoozer
Isn't active directory so much fun
Posted on 1/12/15 at 2:08 pm to Casty McBoozer
Posted on 1/12/15 at 4:22 pm to Casty McBoozer
Speaking of, KrebsOnSecurity just released their findings on the LizardSquad ddos attack on xboxlive and psn. LINK
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As we can see in that writeup, in addition to turning the infected host into attack zombies, the malicious code uses the infected system to scan the Internet for additional devices that also allow access via factory default credentials, such as “admin/admin,” or “root/12345”. In this way, each infected host is constantly trying to spread the infection to new home routers and other devices accepting incoming connections (via telnet) with default credentials.
Posted on 1/12/15 at 6:09 pm to Casty McBoozer
You know how many passwords the average computer user with a smartphone, work and private email, voicemail pins, credit/debit card pins, Amazon, dozens of other websites, TD.com (the regular and premium sides), [deleted porn reference], etc., etc., etc.?
A frick ton - that's how many.
If you're not getting paid to do this, quit doing it. If you are, shut up and do the job you're probably overpaid for - but for G-d's sake STOP BITCHING ABOUT IT.
A frick ton - that's how many.
If you're not getting paid to do this, quit doing it. If you are, shut up and do the job you're probably overpaid for - but for G-d's sake STOP BITCHING ABOUT IT.
This post was edited on 1/12/15 at 6:09 pm
Posted on 1/13/15 at 8:02 am to Casty McBoozer
As someone who works IT....I totally understand. I ask someone for their password and I get the "deer in the headlights" look. Then I'm like.. the one you type in every morning to get onto your pc !! Then they give me the password for their software login or something else. I guess its part of the job though 
Posted on 1/18/15 at 7:39 pm to Casty McBoozer
Try using an email folder that can be edited for all passwords.
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