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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
To: russcox@gmail.com, 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] First-timer help
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 00:12:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6cf0f4c30efd0a7039a50a60e602d71c@terzarima.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ee9e417a05071712201dcea5c@mail.gmail.com>

>>Rebooting has been easy enough, so we haven't bothered to put
>>more complexity into the system to make changing users easier.

also if you are certain you've rebooted (eg, little reset button
or perhaps power cycle) there's much less chance that preceding
person using the same terminal has left something lurking
(such as a fake login screen for instance, which UNIX has had
almost from the beginning)



  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-17 23:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 91+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-17 18:27 John Floren
2005-07-17 18:26 ` Gorka guardiola
2005-07-17 19:18   ` John Floren
2005-07-17 19:20     ` Russ Cox
2005-07-17 23:12       ` Charles Forsyth [this message]
2005-07-18  9:23         ` Martin C. Atkins
2005-07-18 10:45           ` lucio
2005-07-18 18:24             ` Jack Johnson
2005-07-19  6:01             ` Martin C. Atkins
2005-07-19 13:29               ` Axel Belinfante
2005-07-19 13:57               ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-07-19 16:11                 ` Martin C. Atkins
2005-07-19 15:38               ` Charles Forsyth
2005-07-19 16:12                 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2005-07-19 16:39                 ` Martin C. Atkins
2005-07-21  2:30                 ` Tim Newsham
2005-07-20  1:43               ` Brian L. Stuart
2005-07-18 13:08           ` Steve Simon
2005-07-21  2:17             ` Tim Newsham
2005-07-21  4:34               ` arisawa
2005-07-21  2:11         ` Tim Newsham
2005-07-21  2:57           ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-07-22  9:44             ` Richard Miller
2005-07-22  9:49               ` Charles Forsyth
2005-07-22 15:09                 ` Gorka guardiola
2005-07-22 14:14               ` Wes Kussmaul
2005-07-22 15:36               ` David Leimbach
2005-07-22 18:13                 ` jmk
2005-07-23  3:30                 ` LiteStar numnums
2005-07-23 16:19                   ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-07-21 16:12           ` Dave Eckhardt
2005-07-21 16:23             ` Russ Cox
2005-07-21 17:33             ` Wes Kussmaul
2005-07-21 18:13             ` Tim Newsham
2005-07-22  6:16               ` Dave Eckhardt
2005-07-22  6:20                 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-07-21 23:00             ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-07-22  1:28               ` David Leimbach
2005-07-22  1:48               ` Russ Cox
2005-07-22  3:54                 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-07-22  5:57                   ` lucio
2005-07-17 19:20     ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-07-17 19:47       ` John Floren
2005-07-17 19:44         ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-07-17 20:17           ` John Floren
2005-07-17 20:20             ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-07-17 20:58               ` Russ Cox
2005-07-17 19:45         ` Christopher Nielsen
2005-07-17 23:17         ` Charles Forsyth
2005-07-18  0:33           ` Dave Lukes
2005-07-18  7:31             ` lucio
2005-07-18 15:24             ` Jack Johnson
2005-07-18 15:33               ` David Leimbach
2005-07-18 13:51         ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-07-18 15:54           ` arisawa
2005-07-18 16:46             ` Jack Johnson
2005-07-17 19:29     ` Tim Wiess
2005-07-19  0:33     ` arisawa
2005-07-19  1:04       ` arisawa
2005-07-17 18:26 ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-07-17 18:30   ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-07-17 22:13 ` [9fans] " Dave Eckhardt
2005-07-18 20:42 [9fans] " Ben Huntsman
2005-07-19 15:48 Ben Huntsman
2005-07-19 16:01 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-07-19 16:07   ` Jack Johnson
2005-07-19 16:10   ` Russ Cox
2005-07-19 16:23     ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-07-19 16:46       ` Martin C. Atkins
2005-07-19 16:40     ` Bakul Shah
2005-07-19 16:51     ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-07-19 17:14     ` Devon H. O'Dell
2005-07-19 20:08       ` David Leimbach
2005-07-19 20:29         ` Devon H. O'Dell
2005-07-20  6:39     ` William K. Josephson
2005-07-19 20:05   ` David Leimbach
2005-07-20  4:40     ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-07-20  5:02       ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-07-20  8:46       ` Charles Forsyth
2005-07-20 13:44         ` David Leimbach
2005-07-20  0:57   ` Brian L. Stuart
2005-07-20  4:47     ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-07-21  2:33       ` Brian L. Stuart
2005-07-21  3:02         ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-07-21  3:46           ` Brian L. Stuart
2005-07-21  2:32 ` Tim Newsham
2005-07-19 16:33 Ben Huntsman
2005-07-20  4:09 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-07-20 16:38 Dave Eckhardt
2005-07-21 23:25 Francisco J. Ballesteros
2005-07-21 23:36 ` Devon H. O'Dell

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