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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!news.maxwell.syr.edu!ais.net!news.stealth.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!207.17.190.11!news.diac.com!news From: sitaram@diac.delete.com (Sitaram Chamarty) Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: Sat, 05 Apr 1997 14:50:48 GMT Organization: none Lines: 27 Message-ID: <334665fc.659312482@news.diac.com> References: <5hcbac$r22@news.gvsu.edu> <859659793-6-9882@manatee.envirolink.org> <33455DE7.72D5@multics-a.pms.ford.com> <Pine.BSF.3.91.970405001440.6436B-100000@dolphin.inna.net> Reply-To: sitaram@diac.delete.com NNTP-Posting-Host: p91.ts1.diac.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/32.230 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:19802 comp.os.linux.misc:168070 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38482 Jamie Bowden <jamie@inna.net> wrote: >On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, Vincent F. Scarafino wrote: >> One item I'm surprised nobody mentioned--more than one person >> cannot log into and use an NT machine at the same time. >> It is *NOT* multi-user. >> >> Seems like a significant "thing" to me. > >NT is multi user. It's just broken multi user. If you really want to >see a security nightmare, turn telnetd's eqiv. in NT on. Whoever logs in >remote becomes whoever is logged into the console. Security. Yeah, right. And if you ask a Redmond-head, you'll be told that you can use all the services a particular NT machine offers by resource sharing (files, printers, whatever), from your client (which of course is either Win95 or NT - so MS sells more junk!) so why do you need telnet or something like that? Nothing will ever convince them otherwise. (And when they find out that telnet doesn't do much with a mouse, if at all, they go all pitiful on you - "Oh the poor man's married to his command line/character based interface/VT100 - we can't help him!") ------------------------------------- Sitaram Chamarty delete the word "delete" from the domain name - as I'm sure you've guessed - to get my email address