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Article #2348Re: Password on PS-laserprinter ??
From: Woody Baker Eagle Signal
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 1990 05:47
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 1990 05:47
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In article <9590001@hpcilzb.HP.COM>, mark@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Mark Turner) writes: > >responsiblilty. In addition email me a request. I have adopted this > >procedure, to try to limit liablilty if someone should mis-use the > >routine. Fortunatly, you can undo anything that has been done, but > >I'd rather not be responsible for some malicious person using it. > >I won't accept laser printed stationary (mmmm to easy to fake.... 8->>) > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Holy Cow! Are you going to analyze my handwriting too? > > >Woody Baker > >Rt.1 Box I > >Manor, Tx. 78653 > > Who the hell are you, the printer police? Maybe I should send a > notarized letter signed by George Bush. Jeez, buddy, get a life. > Not really. But since you asked... The routine can be used to royally screw the printer up. In the wrong persons hands, it could cause absolute havoc on a network. (how would you like to have the password change randomly on you ever few minutes?). Not only can the routine set and reset the password it can also mess up the hardware registration information and quite a few other critical bits and bytes. I merely wish to protect my self from the consequences if someone misues it and then points to me as the person that he got it from. Perhaps you'd like to take on the risk? Obviously you can't read because all of this was in the original reply. Cheers Woody
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!texbell!chinacat!woody From: woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Password on PS-laserprinter ?? Summary: hmmmm Message-ID: <1314@chinacat.Unicom.COM> Date: 10 Jun 90 05:47:15 GMT References: <90149.162400LK-AP@finou.oulu.fi> <9590001@hpcilzb.HP.COM> Organization: a guest of Unicom Systems Development, Austin Lines: 33