🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <JTKOHL.89Dec4134209@quicksilver.mit.edu>, jtkohl@quicksilver.mit.edu (John T Kohl) writes:
> In article <17399@rpp386.cactus.org> woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker) writes:
> 
> >... but there are many legitimate
> >reasons to exit the server.  Most apps do it, and because they do it, changing
> >the server password is tantamount (spelling?) to throwing the app out.  sure,
> >you can go in and change the preamble.  It might work. 
> 
> I think a better solution is to lobby the application developers to add
> an option to their programs that allow a user to specify the exitserver
> password.  This allows the shared environments to be carefully
> controlled, while allowing people to get useful stuff printed (assuming
> they either know the password or know how to find the SysOp who does).
> 
> If the application developers don't put this feature in their
> application, then find some competitor who does!
> --
> John Kohl <jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> or <jtkohl@Kolvir.Brookline.MA.US>
> Digital Equipment Corporation/Project Athena
> (The above opinions are MINE.  Don't put my words in somebody else's mouth!)

yep, that would be a good approach, but no one does.  Not even Adobe.  All
Indians, no Chiefs.....


Cheers

Woody