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...

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"Nemo" <cym224@gmail.com>

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"The Eunuchs Hysterical Society" <tuhs@tuhs.org>
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Sun, 14 May 2017 21:24:25 -0400
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Re: [TUHS] The evolution of Unix facilities and architecture

On 14 May 2017 at 18:12, Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> 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.