[Coco] setuid? wasRe: Telnet to your CoCo.. and invite 6 of your friends

Willard Goosey goosey at virgo.sdc.org
Mon Nov 30 16:51:35 EST 2009


On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 07:00:15PM -0600, Dave Kelly wrote:
> You shouldn't discount that OS9 was  originally an industrial operating 
> system for running particle accelerators, traffic  control systems, cell 
> phones and thing not necessarily connected to a network.

I guess the assumption was that when these things did talk to a human
it would be user 0, doing maintenance?  I hope industrial versions of
OS-9 came with a stronger password system, at least.

Willard
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