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From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: UNIX - the "don't worry about it" operating system?
Message-ID: <1802@ttrdc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-Jul-87 21:48:46 EDT
Article-I.D.: ttrdc.1802
Posted: Mon Jul  6 21:48:46 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 10-Jul-87 01:07:01 EDT
References: <17108@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> <1089@killer.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T, Skokie, IL
Lines: 17
Keywords: locking safety integrity security
Summary: you left a file containing cleartext passwords world readable!?!

In article <1089@killer.UUCP>, jfh@killer.UUCP (John Haugh) writes:
< What bothers me is how other systems are so complex that mistakes are
< made as a result of their complexity.  My favorite example is VMS.  If
< I remember correctly, adding users was handled by a program named
< AUTHORIZE.  The number of entries required to add a single user was
< large enough that it was impracticle to add more than two or three
< users at a time.  So when it came time to add the CSCI students, they
< created a big .COM file, and ran that.  Of course, VMS had clear-text
< passwords entered when users were added, so all it took was finding
< the right location for this file.  (Which had the suggestive name ADD.COM)

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