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- Path: sparky!uunet!gumby!destroyer!mudos!mju
- From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
- Subject: Re: What is lacking in UNIX? (Re: UNIVEL MUST BE KIDDING!!!!!)
- Message-ID: <Bzss9r.Ds8@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 04:25:02 GMT
- References: <id.0R2W.M24@ferranti.com> <Bzqv2E.Ln8@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> <id.CS3W.9X8@ferranti.com>
- Organization: The Programmer's Pit Stop, Ann Arbor MI
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- In article <id.CS3W.9X8@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
- >It's easier to type "rm /* .bak". And it's easier to boot off a floppy
- >and copy command.com back in.
-
- Since when do you store backup files in the root directory?
-
- >I was also thinking of people naively messing with the system config files.
- >I just had someone render a UNIX box unhappy by changing the root shell
- >to /sbin/csh. With DOS if you do something like that, you can easily boot
- >off floppy and fix it. With UNIX you need to have someone capable of
- >cracking UNIX security, including making a custom boot floppy.
-
- Well, with Unix you can boot off a floppy and fix it as well. You
- don't need a custom boot floppy; what's wrong with the boot floppies
- the OS came with?
-
- But yes, having security usually means you will have lockouts as well.
- And you can deal with that either by getting used to having an
- occasional lockout, or by reducing security. DOS cures the lockout
- problem by not having security. I prefer a bit more secure approach.
-
- Personally, I was somewhat peeved when, after locking my keys in my
- car a month ago and having to call AAA to come unlock it, the towing
- guy didn't even ask to see the vehicle registration before he
- slim-jimed the door. How did he know it was my car (other than the
- fact I claimed ownership)?
-
- --
- Marc Unangst, N8VRH | "Of course, in order to understand this you
- mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us | have to remember that the nucleus of the atom
- | is squishy."
- | -W. Scheider, from a Physics lecture
-