Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!motcsd!mcdcup!mcdchg!ddsw1!zane From: zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Georgia Tech's Restriction on Internet Access Message-ID: <1991Mar16.042742.19416@ddsw1.MCS.COM> Date: 16 Mar 91 04:27:42 GMT References: <23808@hydra.gatech.EDU> <52892@cornell.UUCP> Organization: ddsw1.MCS.COM Contributor, Wheeling, IL Lines: 12 In article <52892@cornell.UUCP> wayner@thrall.cs.cornell.edu (Peter Wayner) writes: >need to worry about random hackers finding out about the root because >these machines were only on the internal network. If a random hacker found out the root password, there wouldn't be a problem. If a random normal person (who knew how to use the system) found out the root password, there would be a problem. -- zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM