SCO Unix 3.2 passwords
Richard Goerwitz
goer at sophist.uucp
Tue Sep 26 03:27:40 AEST 1989
A recent exchange:
>| P.S. An annoying feature of unix 3.2 is password ageing. I don't know
>| if its the same on the C2 version of SCO's unix but to turn it off:
>| 'passwd -x -1 login_name'
>
> A good tip, but what may be annoying to a hobbiest is a useful secuity
>feature in some uses.
This comment is indicative of what is, sadly, a widespread fallacy: That
anyone who uses a 2-user system without a need for password security is,
by implication, a hobbyist. Many of us use personal Xenix systems for
serious work, but do all news-reading, mailing, etc. from a different ma-
chine. I say this, not out of annoyance at the posting, but out of a
wish (naive?) that the Unix world not make the simplistic equation, single
or double-user system = (dumb or unimportant) "hobbyist."
-Richard L. Goerwitz
goer at sophist.uchicago.edu
rutgers!oddjob!gide!sophist!goer
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