[Coco] Telnet to your CoCo.. and invite 6 of your friends

[Willard Goosey]

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 05:53:53PM -0500, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
> "Security" in OS-9 seems to be mostly based on the honor system.

Unfortunately.  I'd always been under the impression that while the
security wasn't complete, what was there worked properly. This doesn't
seem to be the case.

>The real limitation is that the Coco cannot protect
> memory as far as I can tell.
>
Correct.  It's a hardware limitation of the MMU, not the operating
system's fault.

> I mostly guess people would use this feature to run a multiline BBS,
> which *should* have it's own security, 

Yeah, I never did the BBS thing, so I don't really understand it.
Without shell access, what's the point? ;-)  See, my first experience
with multi-user machines was UNIX.

> It would also be trivial to add a simple password check before
> allowing a connection to a port, if that would be useful.

I believe there are replacement login programs with a real(-ish ;)
password program with them on RTSI.

Willard
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