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Date:      Wed, 02 Aug 1995 18:57:36 -0700
From:      Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        paul@freebsd.org, jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-libexec@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/libexec/getty gettytab.5 main.c 
Message-ID:  <199508030157.SAA15584@precipice.shockwave.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Aug 1995 18:46:46 PDT." <5660.807414406@time.cdrom.com> 

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The point is that we have to find a reasonable compromise between
security and convinience.  We should, by default, ship secure, and
make it convinient for someone to slit their own throat, if, and only
if, they've been warned that they'll slit their throat.


  From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
  Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/libexec/getty gettytab.5 main.c 
  > Actually, what we are arguing about is a philosophy.
  > 
  > Taken to an extreme, you can follow the sun philosophy and ship a
  > unix system out of the box with "+" in /etc/host.equiv or you can
  > take the approach that we should ship a system that is reasonably
  > secure for someone to install out of the box on the net.
  
  Yes, but we're not talking about such extremes of security abuse and
  so this entire conversation is irrelevant.  You set up a straw man and
  knock him down.  Well done.  But what does that have to do with
  anything?
  
  						Jordan



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