Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!ai-lab!life!entropy From: entropy@mole.ai.mit.edu (Nick Castellano) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Unix like login for the Atari ???? Message-ID: Date: 25 Oct 90 02:27:14 GMT References: <15516@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1990Oct23.093450.1568@fulcrum.bt.co.uk> Sender: news@ai.mit.edu Organization: not much Lines: 20 In-reply-to: jvt@its.bt.co.uk's message of 23 Oct 90 09:34:50 GMT >In article <15516@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> burnett@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Andy Burnett) writes: >> >> I am looking for a Unix-like login utility. What I want is something >>to allow me to logon and have access to everything, and say have my roomate >>logon and have restricted access to files contained on the HD (not logging on >>simultaneously, of course). Is this possible on the Atari? > >I believe mx2 in binaries/volume3 may help you. It is a multi-tasking OS >(I think) but it does contain a login function. I have not tried it yet >so I cannot help you on how well it works. > The login in mx2 does not allow you to protect directories, just to have various logins vor various people--mostly useless, in other words. -- | | | ncastellano@{eagle.wesleyan.edu, wesleyan.bitnet} | | | entropy@ai.mit.edu / | \ Sinkhole!dEADHEAd[@mast.citadel.moundst.mn.org] (call 203-873-8518) / | \ snikt!entropy