On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:36:53 -0500, Tom Austin wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:21:01 +0100, Fredrik Eriksson wrote:
>> 
>>> On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:37:20 +0100, Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull>
>>> wrote:
>>>>>> No. They have all the master passwords; I don't even know what
>>>>>> those are. So they can lock me out, but not the reverse.
>>>>>  If you have the passwords for the routers, then you have the
>>>>> passwords. :-)
>>>> But I *don't* have the passwords for the routers.
>>> If you have physical access to the routers, then you make the
>>> passwords.
>>>
>>>
>>>>> Seriously. You should write up what's going on and send it to your
>>>>> boss, his boss, and so on up the line. Explain they're crashing your
>>>>> systems and you have no control over it, and ask them what the
>>>>> appropriate procedure should be for violation of procedures.
>>>> Nobody will care. If I say "they did X, which caused a problem",
>>>> everybody will assume I don't know what I'm talking about.
>>> It does not matter what they assume or even what they choose to do
>>> about it. What matters is creating a paper trail to cover your own
>>> ass.
>> 
>> Exactly what I was going to say.
>> 
>> Andy, write the damn paper trail already!
>> 
>> Jim
> 
> 
> he has - it's right here... too bad it isn't anything official.

Yeah, that would make it a bit difficult to use in court.  "Yes, I'm 
'Invisible', and 'Orchid XP v3', m'lud."

Jim

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