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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!ais.net!ix.netcom.com!news.webspan.net!usenet From: Jamie Bowden <jamie@inna.net> Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: 5 Apr 1997 00:08:35 EST Organization: WebSpan Inc., New Jersey Lines: 30 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970405001440.6436B-100000@dolphin.inna.net> References: <5hcbac$r22@news.gvsu.edu> <859659793-6-9882@manatee.envirolink.org> <33455DE7.72D5@multics-a.pms.ford.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dolphin.inna.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <33455DE7.72D5@multics-a.pms.ford.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:19856 comp.os.linux.misc:168236 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38559 On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, Vincent F. Scarafino wrote: > > > > In note <5hcbac$r22@news.gvsu.edu>, behrensm@river.it.gvsu.edu (Matt Behrens) > > writes: > > >Goatboy (lcappite@sprynet.com) wrote: > > > > > >: > Those willing to give up functionality for ease of use > > >: > loose both and deserve neither. > > > > > >: What *significant* things can UNIX do that NT4 or 95 can't? > > > > > > > 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. Jamie Bowden Network Administrator, TBI Ltd.