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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!fnnews.fnal.gov!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!warwick!news.coventry.ac.uk!news From: justin@vide.coventry.ac.uk (Justin Murdock) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: autologin? Date: 24 Nov 1995 11:11:42 +0000 Organization: Visual and Information DEsign centre, Coventry Universtiy Lines: 21 Sender: justin@plinth.vide.coventry.ac.uk Message-ID: <53zqdmp8r5.fsf@plinth.vide.coventry.ac.uk> References: <48heab$gou@acmex.gatech.edu> <48p8ao$2ik@hub.org> <48tptn$j59@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: @vide-gate.coventry.ac.uk In-reply-to: j@uriah.heep.sax.de's message of 22 Nov 1995 00:12:39 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.0.12 >>>>> "JW" == J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> writes: JW> 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? JW> If you run IRIX on an Indy: yes. JW> The Indy is basically a PC. And you don't have to "log in" on a JW> PC either, do you? But you don't set autologin to root, do you? -- ~ o - "There is nothing a vulture hates more than a glass eye." | - \_/ - Justin Murdock, +44 1203 337865. This man is very strange