Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Aether-net (telepathic control protocol) (Re: A3000UX - Born to run UNIX SVR4) Message-ID: <1991Feb16.131318.2023@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 16 Feb 91 13:13:18 GMT References: <18944@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1991Feb14.172156.6910@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1396@tronsbox.xei.com> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 22 In article <1396@tronsbox.xei.com> dfrancis@tronsbox.xei.com (Dennis Heffernan) writes: > In article <1991Feb14.172156.6910@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > |I've heard that the pentagram configuration works, but has the side > |effect of turning all your files mode 0666. Sounds like a security hole > |to me. > Your sysadmin is facing the wrong way. He has to sit facing the > point of the pentagram, not the bottom. Oh, I haven't tried it. A buddy of mine, however, said that there were worse side effects that way. The system admin developed glowing red eyes and started sacrificing source code to the line printer demon. I think he's better now they've put him on a maintainance level of tibetan herbs. > Besides, if you just route everything to the askantic (sp?) record, > you won't even need hard drives... Well, that's fine if you want every two-bit medium in the world having free access to your proprietary secrets. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .