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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: autologin?
Date: 22 Nov 1995 00:12:39 GMT
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scrappy@hub.org (Marc G. Fournier) writes:

> 	So, you are telling me that I can walk up to an Irix machine,
> hit the power button and have free reign of root access to your machine?
> 
> 	And you consider this a feature?

If you run IRIX on an Indy: yes.

The Indy is basically a PC.  And you don't have to "log in" on a PC
either, do you?

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)