24 Apr
2002
24 Apr
'02
10:01 a.m.
I guess
talking to my self and jerking violently and twitching is ok
then after 20 years in the biz...
No IRIX in the mix? 
24 Apr
24 Apr
11:47 a.m.
Douglas H. Quebbeman said:
IRIX in morning, sysadmins take warning...
IRIX at night, hacker's delight.
Heheh. I run a bunch of IRIX machines used for scientific computing :) It's
really not so bad, if you ignore the more horrifying examples of
brain-deadness (what? 16 CDs for an OS install?!...)
<Shudder>
-dq
- Dan Wright
(dtwright(a)uiuc.edu)
(http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)
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``Weave a circle round him thrice, / And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honeydew hath fed, / and drunk the milk of Paradise.''
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan
4:08 p.m.
New subject: IRIX
Douglas H. Quebbeman said:
What I've heard is a very, VERY loose security profile for the default
install... hack proof IRIX is possible with a good admin, but the
default load is far from secure.
Bill
--
d|i|g|i|t|a|l had it THEN. Don't you wish you could still buy it now!
bpechter@shell.monmouth.com|pechter@ureach.com
IRIX in morning, sysadmins take warning...
IRIX at night, hacker's delight.
Heheh. I run a bunch of IRIX machines used for scientific computing :) It's
really not so bad, if you ignore the more horrifying examples of
brain-deadness (what? 16 CDs for an OS install?!...)
<Shudder>
-dq
- Dan Wright
(dtwright(a)uiuc.edu)
(http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright) 
10:02 p.m.
New subject: IRIX
Just from personal experience:
My college used to have a rather large lab of SGI INDYs running IRIX 5.X and
they were horribly insecure. They were all hard-routed to the 'net, static
IPs and everything, and were constantly being hacked. We eventually took
them off the main line and put them behind a Linux firewall due to the
nastiness of it all. I highly recommend not leaving IRIX-based machines
sitting out in the cold unless you're VERY good at IRIX.
Tarsi
What I've heard is a very, VERY loose security
profile for the default
install... hack proof IRIX is possible with a good admin, but the
default load is far from secure.
Bill
25 Apr
25 Apr
7:16 a.m.
New subject: IRIX
Tarsi said:
Just from personal experience:
My college used to have a rather large lab of SGI INDYs running IRIX 5.X and
they were horribly insecure. They were all hard-routed to the 'net, static
IPs and everything, and were constantly being hacked. We eventually took
them off the main line and put them behind a Linux firewall due to the
nastiness of it all. I highly recommend not leaving IRIX-based machines
sitting out in the cold unless you're VERY good at IRIX.
Yeah, pretty much. Also, don't use IRIX 5.x if you can avoid it; it has
HORRIBLE security problems, and as it's not suppored any more (and hasn't been
for quite a while) you won't get any updates to fix the problems...
Though, I think any machines that are truly on-topic wouldn't be able to run
IRIX 6.5 anyway ;)
- Dan Wright
(dtwright(a)uiuc.edu)
(http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)
-] ------------------------------ [-] -------------------------------- [-
``Weave a circle round him thrice, / And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honeydew hath fed, / and drunk the milk of Paradise.''
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan
7:13 a.m.
New subject: IRIX
Bill Pechter said:
What I've heard is a very, VERY loose security profile for the default
install... hack proof IRIX is possible with a good admin, but the
default load is far from secure.
The IRIX setup wizard includes questions like:
Would you like to set a root password? <default no>
Would you like to require user passwords at login? <default no>
Would you like to use shadow passwords? <default no>
clearly, they have a VERY robust security model in mind at the
factory...*cough*
Bill
--
d|i|g|i|t|a|l had it THEN. Don't you wish you could still buy it now!
bpechter@shell.monmouth.com|pechter@ureach.com
- Dan Wright
(dtwright(a)uiuc.edu)
(http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)
-] ------------------------------ [-] -------------------------------- [-
``Weave a circle round him thrice, / And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honeydew hath fed, / and drunk the milk of Paradise.''
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan
7:37 a.m.
New subject: IRIX
--- Dan Wright <dtwright(a)uiuc.edu> wrote:
The IRIX setup wizard includes questions like:
Would you like to set a root password? <default no>
Would you like to require user passwords at login? <default no>
Would you like to use shadow passwords? <default no>
Would you like to automatically submit your IP address to an IRC bot
on a regular basis? <default yes>
:-)
-ethan
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7:53 a.m.
New subject: IRIX
Dan Wright wrote:
Bill Pechter said:
IRIX -- please insert the Windows 95 disk ...
... Installing
:)
What I've heard is a very, VERY loose security profile for the default
install... hack proof IRIX is possible with a good admin, but the
default load is far from secure.
The IRIX setup wizard includes questions like:
Would you like to set a root password? <default no>
Would you like to require user passwords at login? <default no>
Would you like to use shadow passwords? <default no>
clearly, they have a VERY robust security model in mind at the
factory...*cough*
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