Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!uwm.edu!uwvax!tank!sophist!goer From: goer@sophist.uucp (Richard Goerwitz) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: SCO Unix 3.2 passwords Message-ID: <5529@tank.uchicago.edu> Date: 25 Sep 89 17:27:40 GMT References: <1989Sep21.151325.8827@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <656@fiver.UUCP> <479@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Sender: news@tank.uchicago.edu Reply-To: goer@sophist.UUCP (Richard Goerwitz) Organization: University of Chicago Lines: 20 A recent exchange: >| P.S. An annoying feature of unix 3.2 is password ageing. I don't know >| if its the same on the C2 version of SCO's unix but to turn it off: >| 'passwd -x -1 login_name' > > 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. Many of us use personal Xenix systems for serious work, but do all news-reading, mailing, etc. from a different ma- chine. I say this, not out of annoyance at the posting, but out of a wish (naive?) that the Unix world not make the simplistic equation, single or double-user system = (dumb or unimportant) "hobbyist." -Richard L. Goerwitz goer@sophist.uchicago.edu rutgers!oddjob!gide!sophist!goer