Checkbox for "Install Everything"

[jdow]

From: "Ric Moore" <wayward4now at gmail.com>

> On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 22:21 -0700, jdow wrote:
>> I accidentally (and I mean REALLY
>> accidentally) discovered a bug in their modem login code that some of
>> us used to login from home. It would not the user out of the connection
>> died. I discovered it by trying to get logged in and catching myself
>> in a co-worker's account. I looked around enough to figure out who then
>> logged out and told the IT folks about it the next day. They had the MOST
>> DELIGHTFUL "Oh Shit!" looks on their faces. (It was a facility that had a
>> DoD security clearance to maintain.)
>
> The early Linux installs of getty did the same thing. (Before Uugetty) I
> had that happen with the earlier version of GTE Telemail way before
> that. At 2400 baud, you could wander around the entire site, poking into
> the GM company emails and several nuclear sites without a password if
> you managed to get in hitting return on name and passwd when you logged
> in to catch a bad logoff session. The only thing I ever found notable
> was am email from some GM exec who stated that "This email thing will
> never catch on. This is what secretaries are for." He probably moved to
> AMC and built the Gremlin.

Hit return once and it gave me the command prompt. Another time I ended
up in somebody's edit session, I suspect. He probably had a dozen
spurious return in his document. It was the second time that I got the
command prompt and figured out what was going on.

{^_-}