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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: SCO Unix 3.2 passwords
Summary: What you read is not what I write
Message-ID: <498@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 25 Sep 89 20:49:48 GMT
References: <1989Sep21.151325.8827@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <656@fiver.UUCP> <5529@tank.uchicago.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center
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In article <5529@tank.uchicago.edu>, goer@sophist.uucp (Richard Goerwitz) writes:
|  >He's quoting me, here:
|  >
|  >  A good tip, but what may be annoying to a hobbiest is a useful secuity
|  >feature in some uses.
|  
|  This comment is indicative of what is, sadly, a widespread fallacy:  That
|  anyone who uses a 2-user system without a need for password security is,
|  by implication, a hobbyist.

  Actually I was refering to the spectrum of machines from the "1 user,
no external connections" to the public access systems. I was not
categorizing any particular machine as one thing or another, just
covering the bases on range of use. I use the term hobbyist in the sense
of a system used for personal, non-commercial purposes, not as a
perjurative in any sense.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon