Password verifiers
The enterprise incarnation of MS Windows evidently includes a feature that allows the BOFH to implement a complex set of password rules without telling anyone what they are. So on the day when you start a new job,and you have 100 other things to remember, you have to go though this:
Computer says "You have to change your password at first login."
You enter a new password from the range of passwords you can remember.
Computer says "No. Does not conform to rules."
You enter a mangled version of one of your memorable passwords.
Computer says "No. Does not conform to rules."
...repeat many times with increasing mangling until...
You enter an impossibly complex password that will conform to just about any rules. It is 30 characters long and includes uppercase, lowercase, digits, punctuation, whitespace, runes and hieroglyphs.
Computer says "Oh all right then."
You immediately forget the complex password.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
