16 May
2017
16 May
'17
midnight
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" <cym224(a)gmail.com>
To:"The Eunuchs Hysterical Society" <tuhs(a)tuhs.org>
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 <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
pretty
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 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.