Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!oz.cis.ohio-state.edu!jgreely From: jgreely@oz.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Diskless NeXT's?? Message-ID: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 Lines: 16 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)