HD permissions stay put

[Paul Allen Newell]

On 7/4/2011 9:06 PM, Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 22:34 +0000, g wrote:
>> if you are a user on multi systems on multi machines and you wish to
>> log into other machines, user name, id's, _and_ password need to be
>> same.
> Um, no, generally the passwords don't need to be the same.  You just
> need to be able to log in.
>
I remember getting burned by different passwds for same user back in the 
1980's ... can't remember the specifics. Though I am certain things have 
gotten much better in dealing with networks and protocols, I thought 
there was still some reason why passwd should be the same?