[Info-vax] VMS humor

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <rshs9q$nnu$1 at dont-email.me>,
=?UTF-8?Q?Jan-Erik_S=c3=b6derholm?= <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>
writes: 

> 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.

True, if you work from one access point.  But that is then a single 
point of failure.  An alternative is some sort of password safe with a 
master password.  But if that is local, again a single point of failure 
(except perhaps if running on a distributed VMS cluster) and if not, you 
have to trust the platform where it is hosted.