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From: madd@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,rec.ham-radio,comp.windows.x,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: MINIX - STD EXTENSIONS
Message-ID: <807@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-Mar-87 21:11:54 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar  3 21:11:54 1987
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References: <336daeb9.9540@apollo.uucp> <475@gouldsd.UUCP>
Reply-To: madd@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP (Jim "Jack" Frost)
Organization: ODO (Organization for the Disorganization of Organization)
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Keywords: MINIX PACKET TCP IP X WINDOWS
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In article <475@gouldsd.UUCP> mjranum@gouldsd.UUCP (Marcus J Ranum) writes:
>I think it might be more productive to worry (in order) about exhaustively
>testing minix, and making more portable drivers for a variety of hard disk
>controllers, and then maybe clearing up the odd bug here and there. TCP/IP
>is really very nice, but who wants to talk to a PC anyway ? I'd never let 
>one on my network unless the sucker had a better security system than being
>able to boot off of *ANY* floppy you choose (hence any /etc/passwd, etc). 

THERE IS NOT ONE SINGLE UNIX SYSTEM ANYWHERE THAT IS INVULNERABLE TO
BOOTING DOCTORED MATERIAL.  If you can set up the system in the first
place, then you can also set it up again with altered files.  The only
thing that stops most people from doing this is a locked door.  You
can just as effectively lock up a PC.  Therefore, I don't think that
the ability to boot off a diskette is a valid reason not to allow PC's
to connect to a network.

Now that that's off my chest, the rest of the arguments given in M. J.
Ranum's posting are great.  Let's not try to set up complex programs
on MINIX systems until MINIX is humming along perfectly.

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