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From: jgreely@oz.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Diskless NeXT's??
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Date: 12 Aug 89 01:43:50 GMT
References: <192101@<1989Aug8> <245300019@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: J Greely 
Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science
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In-reply-to: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu's message of 10 Aug 89 19:59:00 GMT

In article <245300019@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>I don't understand this. I get my NeXt in a box. I take it out and
>plug it in. I install the operating system, making myself root. What
>do you want to prohibit me from doing? 

Nothing.  The current discussion has absolutely nothing to do with
personal machines.  We're talking about university lab environments.
I don't much care what you do with your NeXT, but when you use *mine*
(translation: department facility), you will not be permitted to boot
the machine from your own disk.  Period.  If you have a carefully
customized environment on your OD, that's too bad.  $10 says you're
not using my sendmail.cf, uid assignment scheme, subnet mask, YP
domain, NFS mounts, network routing, /bin/mail, /etc/rc, etc.

-=-
J Greely (jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu; osu-cis!jgreely)