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Re: (ASCEND) Year 2000 problem with Ascend Radius
Sifting through our manual(September 26, 1997)
we have the exact same discription of having to
use 19 at the begining of the year. Hopefully it
is a misprint, lest ascend receive a large boot to
the skull by understandably upset users of their
equipment.
Jay.
"This is the place where something witty is supposed to be"
valder@erols.com valder@retribution.net
On Thu, 28 May 1998, Walter Reed wrote:
> I was just looking through the Radius Configuration Guide (June 10, 1997
> copyright date) and found on page 9-67 some information that disturbed me.
>
> Under Ascend-PW-Expiration which specifies the expiration date for a users
> password, it has a default value of 00/00/00. According to the doc, if a
> user logs in with the same or later date, they will get the pw-expired
> messsage. If you DO specify a date, you need to enter a four digit year
> which "must start with the number 19".
>
> This implies that radius users will be locked out on Jan 1, 2000.
>
> HELLO!!!! Is someone TOTALLY braindead over there???? I sure as HELL hope
> that this is a typo, or that the software has been changed to fix this.
> There is no excuse for any software written in the past 5 years to have a
> year 2000 problem IMHO.
>
>
>
> --
> Walter Reed - walt@itrade.net
> Engineering Director
> InterTrade Systems Corp.
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