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Multi-user capabilities were added to UNIX during an all-night drinking binge at AT&T's Bell Labs

created by Mr. Option

(idea) by Mr. Option (4.6 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) 5 C!s Thu Oct 12 2000 at 19:24:52

"Hmm. Hey Kern, if we're going to have multiple, err, lusers, how do we tell them apart?"

"Numbers, you nitwit. Pass the pipe."

"But Kern, I am not a number. I am a free man."

"You're a wasted man, is what you are."

"Where do we keep the numbers?"

"Um, in etc of course."

"Right."

"In a file. The password file, how about that, Ritch?"

"There's a problem, though, Kern."

"What? Are we out of beer again? Where's that intern? Hey, intern! BEER RUN!"

"Too many vowels in 'password.' Have to keep those vowels to a minimum or those voices in my head will start assonating like crazy."

"Of course, you're right. Damn those cursed voices. /etc/passwd it is."


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