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From: mike@tuvie (Inst.f.Techn.Informatik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: (was Re: Registry problems AGAIN)
Message-ID: <1946@tuvie>
Date: 1 Nov 90 12:25:57 GMT
References: <9010302021.AB01586@meto.UMD.EDU> <4db69e88.1bc5b@pisa.ifs.umich.edu> <1990Oct31.172607.6456@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
Reply-To: mike@tuvie.UUCP (Inst.f.Techn.Informatik)
Organization: Vienna University of Technology, AUSTRIA
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In article <1990Oct31.172607.6456@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> system@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (System Admin (Mike Peterson)) writes:
>Allowing any user/twit to do shut/exit from the display is RIDICULOUS - the only
>way to secure the system is to put the display away in a locked room, which
>makes it really useful for doing work :-(.

It IS ridiculous - but - if you've read the manuals - necessary. After 
blasting a process, the kernel is supposed to be in a disastrous state - 
kernel structures not cleand up & the like. They (Hpollo) actually suggest 
that you reboot the machine after each & every blast. Now what is our 
opinion about a system where any normal user can f**k up kernel structures?

			bye,
				mike

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