From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: scj@yaccman.com (Steve Johnson) Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 11:00:36 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] The evolution of Unix facilities and architecture In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Early in the Unix days, a DEC repairperson showed up to do "preventive maintenance" and managed to clobber the nascent file system.   Turns out DEC didn't have any permanent file systems on machines that small... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nemo" To:"The Eunuchs Hysterical Society" Cc: Sent:Sun, 14 May 2017 21:24:25 -0400 Subject:Re: [TUHS] The evolution of Unix facilities and architecture On 14 May 2017 at 18:12, Dave Horsfall wrote: > On Sun, 14 May 2017, Derek Fawcus wrote: > >> > to see DEC's internal boxes weren't running System/Manager, >> > Field/Service and UETP/UETP User/password combinations. >> >> Those default account combinations were still being used to gain access >> to VMS systems in the '87-'89 time frame; although user/password was >> less interesting by itself, being an unpriviledged account. > > Wasn't there also Guest/Guest as well? Admittedly it would also be pretty > boring, but nonetheless still a toe-hold. I worked in a VAX shop once where a DEC FSE came by (on the wrong day with the sysadmin out) and was rather upset that the default account passwords had been changed. N. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: