Wednesday WTF #1
I came across this today and am very curious as to why this is:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107666
If you used Open Firmware Password utility to create a password that contains the capital letter “U”, your password will not be recognized during the startup process (when you try to access Startup Manager, for example).
After reading this I decided I must post this immediately and since it’s Wednesday I’m starting a hopefully new recurring section of my blog called “Wednesday WTF”. So please comment as to why you think this might be. One other thing is the page which describes settings up the Open Firmware protection does not anywhere mention to avoid using an uppercase ‘U’ — WTF?
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Comment from Adam
Time July 2, 2008 at 11:35 pm
OF passwords are pretty rare. They’re akin to BIOS passwords. Consumers generally don’t use them, but some corporate/education installs do to keep people messing with it.
As for why U of all characters, I’m not sure. I also wonder why it only affects certain models over a large range in Apple’s history.
Comment from Bryce Boe
Time July 2, 2008 at 4:07 pm
I didn’t see before that this was from 2003, and apparently not too many people use this feature. Nonetheless it was my WTF of today, besides seeing the pimped out toilet seats at Google, but more on this on Sunday.