Well theres ways and means around everything. As long as the computer centre don't demand access to the machine, they wont know who has root. Proposing trinity rules is absolutely ridiculous. Most of the computers in trinity have restricted access, not just their netsoc server. Maybe they dont understand how essential external access is to minds. Or maybe they are just telling us to fuck off. Well, its not on. Sad people on an ego trip, achieving absolutely nothing.

From: "David Barrett"

Reply-To: To: minds-disaster@redbrick.dcu.ie Subject: Re: [Minds-disaster] Met with Stephen Brown Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 23:25:57 +0000

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--- David Barrett wrote: > > Another one of the rules that the CC wanted was no > > student root access. NONE. > > That seems absolutely fair to me. If we want to make serious changes to minds, we can do > it while supervised by James Cotter. That is probably > the most sensible suggestion ever made by not-so-techy people. Erm, it's our machine. They wanted root access barred from everyone who wasn't staff. Not even with JC's supervision. That's how I read it, which is freaking nonsense as it's our machine.

Unfortunately, it is nonsense we may have to learn to live with.

David

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