Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!ukma!rutgers!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cunixa.cc.columbia.edu!cmm1 From: cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Unix like login for the Atari ???? Message-ID: <1990Oct25.135319.29354@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Date: 25 Oct 90 13:53:19 GMT References: <15516@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1990Oct23.093450.1568@fulcrum.bt.co.uk> Sender: news@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (The Daily News) Organization: Columbia University Lines: 27 In article entropy@mole.ai.mit.edu (Nick Castellano) writes: >>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. I would think that Gulam would provide some sort of protection like this? If not, maybe you could try Minix for the ST. I found MX2 to be a little on the unstable side. Chris ------------------------------+--------------------------- Chris Mauritz |D{r det finns en |l, finns cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu |det en plan! (c)All rights reserved. | Send flames to /dev/null | ------------------------------+---------------------------