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From: mic@ut-emx.UUCP (Mic Kaczmarczik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Can I stop everyone from resetting the system clock?
Message-ID: <25477@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 3 Mar 90 23:19:02 GMT
References: <2170@milton.acs.washington.edu> <25424@ut-emx.UUCP> <BOB.90Mar2161018@volitans.MorningStar.Com>
Reply-To: mic@emx.utexas.edu (Mic Kaczmarczik)
Organization: UT Austin Computation Center, Unix/VMS/Cyber Services
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In article <BOB.90Mar2161018@volitans.MorningStar.Com> bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) writes:
>In article <25424@ut-emx.UUCP> mic@ut-emx.UUCP (Mic Kaczmarczik) writes:
>   Alternatively, perhaps NeXT should consider requiring you to type
>   in the system administrator password before setting things that
>   affect the entire system.
>
>But that would destroy the quaint personal computer feel of the
>system, and make it seem too much like a UNIX workstation.

Hmm, yes. A personal computer that actually kept users out of each
others' hair *would* be sort of strange, wouldn't it? :-) :-) :-)
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Unix/VMS/Cyber Services                                     mic@utaivc (BITNET)
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