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From: justin@vide.coventry.ac.uk (Justin Murdock)
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Subject: Re: autologin?
Date: 24 Nov 1995 11:11:42 +0000
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>>>>> "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?


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