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Re: deathtongue

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Wed Oct 30 09:33:16 2002

From: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
To: Sam Hartman <hartmans@mit.edu>
Cc: licks@mit.edu
Date: 30 Oct 2002 09:33:15 -0500
In-Reply-To: Sam Hartman's message of "Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:15:23 -0500"

Is there a good reason for this?

                Marc

Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU> writes:

>> >>>>> "Marc" == Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU> writes:
>> 
>>     Marc> "Thomas L. Thornton" <tomt@MIT.EDU> writes:
>>     >>> Maybe a couple things.  First, a (I presume) local account
>>     >>> like sipb0 would not have an AFS profile mapped to its H:
>>     >>> drive, to which a pismere machine redirects profiles.  Second,
>>     >>> the app and pismere ACLs might prevent anyone but a local
>>     >>> admin account to write to other registry or configuration
>>     >>> dirs.  I can't remember if SecureCRT requires local admin
>>     >>> privilege.
>> 
>>     Marc> I can't comment on the second issue, but sipb0 is a fully
>>     Marc> valid athena account which can be used on any athena
>>     Marc> workstation.
>> 
>>     Marc>                 Marc
>> 
>> 
>> To make your life confusing, there is also a local account called
>> sipb0 without a password.

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