Episode 2
"I've forgotten my password, can you help me ?"
"Yeah, sure. What's your login ?"
"fstupid"
<clickity-click clickity-click>
"Hmm, yeah I can fix it, tho' it looks like you've never used your account"
"What ya mean ?"
"It's totally empty...not even a .login or .cshrc"
"But I had the entire collection of Elle jpegs in there!"
[Guess we take a look at the backups tonight...shouldn't have been so fast with rm -rf /users/student/fstupid]
"Hmm, so you weren't using your account for educational reasons....just fill in this payment form....."
The luser fills in the form with a whimper, and hands over the 25 bucks. Well, that's lunch taken care of.
<clickity-click>
"I'll just get your new password from the laser".
I wonder on down to the secretaries office, get the printout, talk to her about last night's dinner, the latest hot web sites and who's doing who in the student population. Always helps to suck up to the people that handle your pay claims. 15 minutes later I wander back into the office. The whiney fart is still there. Some people don't learn.....
"Okay, here's your new password."
I hand the luser his new password, written in 50 point font, with his luser name and all. The resident hacker behind him gets out his pen.
"Is scum.bag really a valid password ?"
Sheesh. Didn't even have to go to the trouble of the extra large font. The hacker lurks off.
[Dummy mode on]
"Yes, all it needs is eight characters. But don't try to change it for a hour,
as you might damage your account if you do."
The luser leaves. Given the resident hacker's habits, I think that the luser is going to become really popular with the alt.sex.anal.fisting crowd...