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Re:Windows NT for Power Macintosh by icedchai on Friday July 12, 2024 @10:37PM (#40951333)
A/UX was also ridiculously insecure in its default configuration. It had a "guest" user, no password. I remember labs of Mac II or IIx systems at a local university, with public IP addresses, guest accounts, no passwords. A local BBS guy posted a message on how to get "free" internet access through the university's dialups. I think it was at least a month before things got locked down.
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Re:Windows NT for Power Macintosh by mixmastamyk on Friday July 12, 2024 @10:44PM (#40951367)
It was the time, only trustworthy people on the net so far. Told the story here about my mid-ninties job where I ran Quake servers on the lan before we had a firewall.
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Re:Windows NT for Power Macintosh by icedchai on Saturday July 13, 2024 @07:26PM (#40957667)
Yes, though contemporary OSes like SunOS were more secure than A/UX. Once you were on the network though, it was like swiss cheese (NIS / YP... unshadowed password files... etc.)
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