Subj : Re: linux permissions issue
To   : tenser
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Thu Sep 04 2025 06:57 am

-=> tenser wrote to Digital Man <=-

 te> MIT used to write the root password for the Athena clusters on
 te> the wall, because they got sick of precocious undergrads breaking
 te> root all the time.  It removed the incentive, and abuse went way
 te> down

 I remember a story about a University computer system with a
 CRASH-SYSTEM command that crashed the system. Same idea, take the elite
 aspect away from taking down the system (which apparently happened by
 undergrads hoping for extensions on papers)

I thought it was in the New Hacker's Dictionary (great read, BTW) but
can't find it.


 
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