[109] in DeathTongue Changes
Re: login accounts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Wang)
Fri Nov 20 11:08:11 1998
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 11:06:29 -0500
To: Jeremy C Daniel <jdaniel@MIT.EDU>
From: David Wang <d_wang@MIT.EDU>
Cc: licks@MIT.EDU
>something that just occurred to me, is there any shared login other
>than the rumored "old root password". I think it would be a good idea
>to make a login for sipb0 with it's standard password which likely has
>wider distribution, for people who don't need the privleges of
>administrator
Being sent to licks I assume you are talking about Deathtongue.
However, you do make a point that I find very odd. I don't understand why
on the NT system everyone is using the same Administrator account. I
consider that dangerous because if you screw it up, the system's toast
administratively, and you might as well re-install NT.
I think it's *much* better to give everyone that uses it a user account,
then place the account into different adminstrative user groups -- those
that need admin privileges can belong in the Administrator group and those
that don't can belong in at least the User group and possibly any other
subset.
However, that begs the question of how people can add themselves as new
users. I don't think there is a way. An administrator adds all new users.
--David
