[Info-vax] VMS humor

[Craig A. Berry]

On 12/30/20 7:25 AM, VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> 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.

And goes against current NIST guidelines for long, easy-to-remember
passwords that do not routinely expire. Of course most auditors go by
what NIST said a decade or two ago, so a lot of folks won't have any
choice about following older practices.