[Thinkpad] T40: no place to enter bios supervisor password

[Pretty Good Computer Services]

The oldest child, the wife's maiden name, the word Password, 1234567,
0123456, 0000000, and other such brilliant ideas.  When Cox.Net first added
Green Valley to their internet services, we servced a lot of homes.  All
customers were givent he password, Password.   Three years later, most of
them still used Password as the password, so they had to force them to
change.



On 8/8/07, Jonathan Berry <jberry at islandnet.com> wrote:
>
> Why, one wonders, the limit of 7 characters on the supervisor
> password?
>
> Oh, I know, I know!
>
> At least we know now that all supervisor passwords are
> breakable in no more than some number to the 7th power tries.
> And that for those in the know, the password is more likely to
> be a telephone number or ...
>
> Rosebud
>
> --
> happy
> Jonathan Berry and Erika http://members.shaw.ca/berry5868/fun.htm
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