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From: james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SCO's C2 came to the rescue!!!
Message-ID: <51006@bigtex.cactus.org>
Date: 11 Dec 90 02:03:46 GMT
References: <36@unigold.UUCP>
Reply-To: james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen)
Organization: Institute of Applied Cosmology, Austin TX
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In <36@unigold.UUCP>, lance@unigold.UUCP (Lance Ellinghouse) wrote:

> I am sick and tired of hearing everyone say SCO's C2
> is not worth anything... Here is an example of someplace
> it *DID* help...

> One day I tried to call in from home and found the terminal
> line Disabled by the C2 security.. This seemed odd..

> We have checked EVERYONE's accounts and they are all ok with
> no illegal accesses found. 

> Thus we concluded that someone was TRYING to break in to our
> system but gave up after being locked out after a few tries
> each day... 

Whoa!  That's quite a leap of faith.  Going from "C2 shut down
terminal line" -> "no illegal access" -> "someone was trying to
break in"?  Sounds like we're still clueless as to what happened.
Occam's Razor: there's probably a bug in the C2 code.

> We are THANKFUL that SCO *DID* Have C2 in the system or that
> person may have actually GOTTEN in!!

The power switch is even more effective than C2, and from the sounds
of the complaints, might have less impact on productivity.  :-)
-- 
James R. Van Artsdalen          james@bigtex.cactus.org   "Live Free or Die"
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