[Info-vax] VMS humor

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2020-12-30 kl. 14:25, skrev VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG:
> In article <74ad5ee7-5ee4-4aac-a48d-5013d840683an at googlegroups.com>, John Reagan <xyzzy1959 at gmail.com> writes:
>> On Tuesday, December 29, 2020 at 5:49:23 PM UTC-5, Michael Moroney wrote:
>>> Does anyone else wonder if the drug manufacturers use the VMS password
>>> generator to name new drugs? :-)
>> On x86, it will be harder to pronounce:
>>
>> $ set password/generate=16/algo=mixed
>> Old password:
>>
>> knE~yAZ7dv=K]+Ui
>> 3t;yh58-6T1[Oa7;
>> 40Ie652I[6xlW3Yl
>> ud58{>!1&R17h7uo
>> dRcp7Se{'8^1<mK0
>>
>> Choose a password from this list, or press RETURN to get a new list
> 
> And harder to remember!  That'll insure that the user records their
> password somewhere besides in their memory.
> 

It has been a long time since users only kept passwords in their memory.

Most applications (maybe more browsers then terminal emulators)
today has the option to save the login data. It is uncommon today
that you are forced to remember your passwords yourself.