Re: Preventing su on personal workstations

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From: Charles Hedrick
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1989 09:07

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We don't give users root access even on workstations that they own.  We
also hack boot so they can't boot single user (at least not easily).
Secure NFS may allow this restriction to be relaxed, but until we get 4.0
up throughout our network we won't be able to evaluate that.

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From: hedrick@geneva.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick)
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Subject: Re: Preventing su on personal workstations
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