HD permissions stay put

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 21:20 -0700, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
> 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?

You may be thinking of the r* commands (rcp, rsh, ...) but I can't be
bothered looking up the details. They are frowned on nowadays in any
case.

poc