On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 8:56 PM, Don Morrison <dfm2@cmu.edu> wrote:

On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 7:52 PM, Ken Tilton <kentilton@gmail.com> wrote:
> To be honest, I think it would be a wonderful testament to the proud
> morbidity of Lisp if we made the admin password public, put it in
> the FAQ, and published it every month, and no one ever used it.

There’s precedent in the MACLISP branch of Common Lisp’s family tree. Anyone could login, or run without logging in, from anywhere in the country over the ARPAnet, to the various ITS machines, using whatever lusername they liked, without a password. And anyone could edit any file on the machine, watch what anyone else was doing, and bring the machine down.

Thanks for the wonderful history. I was immediately reminded of the Garden of Eden, a time of innocence before we ate from the tree of good and evil.

-hk