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If you are using a company workstation, what does it matter? The computer isn't yours anyway. Besides, I.T. can get into your workstation without your password.
If it's your personal computer, just say excuse me and block his view with your body while typing in your password. If you have the pointy haired boss[^], you can spell out the password out loud as you type it in and he still wouldn't get it.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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if you dont trust your boss, it is a clear signal that it is time to change the job.
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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When this type of stuff happens to me, I just lean forward on the keyboard to type the password. If your boss doesn't get the idea, then they are stupid; and we already know, you can't fix stupid.
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When working together, the time when it would come up, either of us would unabashedly turn their heads.
True - he can get into anything - and I can get into a very lot of stuff - but your password should still be yours. It's not a lack of trust - it's courtesy. We share a number of very important resources and the password access. Yours - Mine - Ours.
When logged in with uid/pwd, as far as the computer's concerned, it's you. You take the blame for what happens. Sys Admin can always get into your account - but not logged in as you.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos wrote: When working together, the time when it would come up, either of us would unabashedly turn their heads.
Everyone does the same where I work. Apparently it's far from universal though. A few months ago when I was helping my Mom with something on her computer; she found my looking away unusual enough to be noteworthy.   
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Not knowing if there's more to your story, it could just be that, as your Mom she implicitly trusted you with the info.
-- My Mrs. doesn't hide her passwords from me (at least those I know about). This is probably based upon (1) trust, and (2) I have to fix things when they go wrong.*
*It also allows her to pass the buck to me, now and then, for administrative matters that come through her accounts.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Not knowing if there's more to your story, it could just be that, as your Mom she implicitly trusted you with the info.
No, it was that she was used to cow-orkers who saw nothing wrong with acting like they were shoulder surfing.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Move aside so that your keyboard can be seen very clearly, type the password slowly - like playing a Beethoven sonata then as soon as boss leaves change password.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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I use KeyPassSafe[^] I just have to double click the password, it goes into clipboard temporarily (is removed after N seconds) and I can paste it. Unlocking the safe can be done by a usb stick with a key file on it for example.
I won’t not use no double negatives.
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+1 for KeePass.
The password is never visible, and never typed.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Yes it looks a little bit odd but the password is a secret thing so it can't disclose to anyone. If I face such scenario then I type some extra characters and then remove that extra characters very confidently. In this way they don't mind on this.
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You type slow enough for people to see what you hit?
Not me.
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Point your finger hard to your left and Go, "Look, a Squirrel!"
You should be able then to get at least the first couple characters typed privately.
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Key in your password as ************
More seriously, can you key in such that one hand occasionally comes between the boss' eyes and the keyboard, while the other hand is keying in a letter; for example, he would not know which of three adjacent characters on the keyboard you keyed in, because the other hand obscures his view partially 
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Your work password?
Who gives a cr@p? They own the machine, and can log on to it any time they like.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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/*
* ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
* "THE BEER-WARE LICENSE" (Revision 43):
* Nagy Vilmos wrote this file. As long as you retain this notice you
* can do whatever you want with this stuff. If we meet some day, and you think
* this stuff is worth it, you can buy me a beer in return.
* ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
Should be a licence option for material on CP!
veni bibi saltavi
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A beer? You're slipping!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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No, you're slipping! A bear does not indicate the quantity. Maybe a pint, maybe a gallon or maybe a half of weak shandy if you're from Luton. 
veni bibi saltavi
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Yes, bears come in very different sizes.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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You want to drink a pint or a gallon of bear, you go right ahead!
I'll be outside the zoo in the getaway car... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I had a bear's beer under my beard.
Sod it, I'll go back to the gin!
veni bibi saltavi
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Make that two slips. Beer?
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: /*
* ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
* "THE BEER-WARE LICENSE" (Revision 43):
* Nagy Vilmos wrote this file while experiencing the Ballmer Peak. As long as you retain this notice you
* can do whatever you want with this stuff. If we meet some day, and you think
* this stuff is worth it, you can buy me a beer in return.
* ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
FTFY.
But then again, .129% and .138% is somewhat lesser for you, isn't it? 
I ain't got no signature.
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Is this what they call "Management by Beer" ?
I am glad it is finally catching on.
Life is too shor
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