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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!Celestial.COM!bill
- From: bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell)
- Subject: Re: Xenix considered harmful (was Re: SCO support - a success story)
- Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
- Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 15:36:27 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep03.153627.11410@Celestial.COM>
- References: <9209010926.AA25624@dynamix.com> <BtxqGy.1zF@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> <1189@consult.UUCP> <BtznH6.Ez@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
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- In <BtznH6.Ez@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
-
- :Well, he said that Xenix was appropriate for customers who had no
- :networking or security needs. Modems are a form of networking, and as
- :you mention, they work fine. But putting a modem on a computer and
- :leaving security turned off is just about as much of a security risk
- :as putting the root password in /etc/issue.
-
- Xenix has the same security as UNIX had for years and it works
- just fine if the people on the system take reasonable precautions
- about passwords. I've run Xenix for years on systems that are
- quite well connected to the world (camco talks to approximately
- 50 other systems every day and runs Xenix 2.3.3).
- .....
- :>>senior this year.
- :> ^^^^^^
-
- :Your point being? Or do you feel that I'm unqualified to participate
- :in this discussion, because I'm still in high school?
-
- Hire the teenagers while they still know all the answers! When I
- graduated from high school, I knew it all. Four years of college
- taught me how little I really know (it took me a lot longer than
- that to learn a little humility :-).
-
- Bill
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