[Coco] OS-9 security

[Sean]

Wow, that is actually something that never occurred to me...  Yes,
anyone at a serial terminal with the command line could definitely
wreak some havoc!

Guess I never had to think about that, since it was so long ago!


On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Willard Goosey <goosey at virgo.sdc.org> wrote:
> OS-9 has (at least the potential) to be a fairly secure multi-user
> system.  It's just that everybody just runs as user 0, AKA root.
>
> Can't really blame Tandy for skipping the whole "Federal  Government
> doesn't like ecryption" thing by not including a password program,
> even if it does render the tsmon/login system kind of silly.
>
> Willard
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