Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ginosko!uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen 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 Lines: 21 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