[15950] in Athena Bugs
running tellme root on a dialup
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, n/BSG)
Tue May 26 22:01:38 1998
Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 22:01:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, n/BSG)
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
I just did `tellme root' on a dialup. It responded:
Warning: This is a private workstation. It may not have the Athena
root password.
The Athena root password is XXXXXXXX.
I understand the point of the first two sentences, and that dialups
are not normal public workstations. But it's also not a "private
workstation" in any ordinary usage of the term "private". I think
some other locution should be chosen, say "This is not a normal public
workstation."
Thomas
