On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 8:56 PM, Don Morrison <d...@cmu.edu> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 7:52 PM, Ken Tilton <kentil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > To be honest, I think it would be a wonderful testament to the proud > > morbidity of Lisp if we made the admin password public, put it in > > the FAQ, and published it every month, and no one ever used it. > > There’s precedent in the MACLISP branch of Common Lisp’s family tree. > Anyone could login, or run without logging in, from anywhere in the country > over the ARPAnet, to the various ITS machines, using whatever lusername > they liked, without a password. And anyone could edit any file on the > machine, watch what anyone else was doing, and bring the machine down. >
Thanks for the wonderful history. I was immediately reminded of the Garden of Eden, a time of innocence before we ate from the tree of good and evil. -hk
