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Re: Fascist PAM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael K. Johnson)
Thu Nov 7 13:06:29 1996
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From: "Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm@redhat.com>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 07 Nov 1996 12:09:24 EST."
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Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 12:29:34 -0500
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"Steve \"Stevers!\" Coile" writes:
>Christ, can we do away with the derogatory termonology? It really annoys
>me that I'm considered a fascist because I want to protect my system.
Calm down. It's standard terminology intended humorously; we didn't
make it up. The cracklib function that we call in "fascist" mode is
actually called "FascistCheck()"; it shouldn't be surprising that
the argument used to disable it is called "fascist".
It's turned *on* by default, and if you want to keep it that way,
you need never see the word "fascist" on your system. If you never
want to see the word "fascist" in email, you can use procmail to
protect yourself.
Is it words or facts that bother you? Red Hat Linux ships in "fascist"
mode; all our systems are "fascist". We agree that it is reasonable
to want to protect your system; we protect our systems carefully. We
aren't politically correct, though; I have no desire to ever be PC
either.
>The GNU su man page annoys me for this reason, too.
Read the su man page on a Red Hat Linux 4.0 system.
michaelkjohnson
"Ever wonder why the SAME PEOPLE make up ALL the conspiracy theories?"
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