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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: hacknews
Subject: 'backup' login name dies
Message-ID: <6079@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 16:57:36 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 24 16:57:36 1985
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The old 'backup' login name has been merged into 'bin'.  It was separate
because of vague notions of making the running of backups be a
non-privileged function, something we never did do.  The separation no
longer serves any useful purpose and was only a nuisance in maintenance,
so it's gone.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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