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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news 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 Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <48tptn$j59@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <48heab$gou@acmex.gatech.edu> <48p8ao$2ik@hub.org> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 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. ;-)