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- From: horde@reed.edu (Mr. Heiji Horde)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Re: COPS on NeXT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.192028.18146@reed.edu>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 19:20:28 GMT
- Article-I.D.: reed.1992Aug18.192028.18146
- References: <1992Aug18.162417.6607@reed.edu> <1992Aug18.181839.27753@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Organization: Twisted Genius Rehabilitation Center, a Division of MHE
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- Disclaimer: This post does not represent the opinion of Reed College.
-
- In article <1992Aug18.181839.27753@leland.Stanford.EDU> m@crito.stanford.edu (M Carling) writes:
- >The known security holes were fixed have been plugged in 3.0. What was
- >first thought to be a security hole in 3.0 was discovered about a week
- >ago, but it turns out to only be a hole if you are running with a ROM
- >version that never made it outside of NeXT. So it isn't a hole.
-
- Wow, did they fix the IFS hole too?
-
- >NeXT does provide source if you buy a source license. Last I checked, it
- >was $10,000.
-
- Okay...that is true. But for the sysadmins of a small college, this is not
- a feasible option.
-
- All we really wanted to do is make Zilla work on other machines, so
- you could run it in a mixed network. But when one of the other
- admins went to ask Richard Crandall about this the reply was basically
- "No, and don't even try".
-
- Oh, yeah, we also wanted to install a hack of ours to fix the idle time
- for someone who logged in via the workspace.
-
- Sort of annoying that there is an attitude of 'run this on our computers
- and no one elses'. Sorry, but the world is not made completely out
- of one company's platforms. Being able to port useful programs around
- is a really nice thing.
-
- -Heiji
-
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