Menu{Master,Maestro,etc} question(s)

[Alan Mazuti]

I did a job in the Cayman Islands many years ago where the accounting staff
refused to give me access to their tandy 6000 xenix box and with the
approval of the majority owner of the company I inserted my boot disk and
changed there root password.   The reaction on there faces was priceless.



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m] On Behalf Of Bill Campbell
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 7:49 AM
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Subject: Re: Menu{Master,Maestro,etc} question(s)

On Wed, May 09, 2007, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>Quoting Bill Campbell (Tue, 8 May 2007 21:33:41 -0700):
>
>> On Tue, May 08, 2007, Keith F Weatherhead wrote:
>> >
>> >On Tue, May 8, 2007 22:31, Mike Schwartz said:
>> ...
>> >The omain player I talked to at Softa/FourGen was Gordon Shaeffer.
>> >It seem that I may have talked to a Lauren(?) just can't remember
>> >for sure.  Its hell to get old !!
>>
>> Gordon!  That's the one who's name I forgot.  He was definately on the
>> marketing/management side, not very technical at all (he left Xenix
>> machines at the root login in his Radio Shack Computer center while
>> hosting Seattle Unix Group meetings.
>
>And nobody took the time to give him a first-hand demonstration on why
>this was a "Bad Thing"[tm]?  :-)

I didn't say that (although the statute of limitations has long
since passed :-).  Some root prompts may have been changed to
something embarrasing, and the root password changed from their
usual ``master'', but I wouldn't know anything about that.

I did teach a few RSCC managers the folly of betting on something
where they had little knowledge when they were convinced that
nobody could get into their Xenix machines when they had good
passwords.  All it required was physical access to the machine,
the installation boot floppy, and the knowledge of getting it
into single user mode (I think that all of Xenix fit on 8 8in
floppies then plus a couple of floppies for the development
system which was necessary to get the vi editor).

Bill
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