Re: [cobalt-users] No Root or Admin Access

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jens Kristian Søgaard wrote:

> Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > As I recall, it was the method of choice with the earliest slackware
> > distribution of linux using Linux kernel 0.99.  I could be mistaken
> > though; it's been years.
> 
> Hmm, yeah. AFAIK the first Slackware distribution came with the 0.95
> or 0.96 kernel (April 1992).
> 
> 0.99 was released December 1992, and were a development kernel.

Might have been... it was the kernel I used for a long time.  'til some
time in '97.  And I'm quite sure I added users by hand, although I'm NOT
quite sure why <wry grin>.  I do remember reading it in the
documentation, though.

Prior to that I'd been using MS Xenix (on a TRS-80 Model II) and SCO
Xenix (and later Unix) on early PC clones.  As I recall, they did have
adduser scripts.

> But what do I know... I started my experiences with the 1.2.13
> kernel (Slackware distribution).
> 
> > Or maybe it was an early Kernighan & Ritchie implementation <sigh>.
> 
> Ehh?
> 
> You mean an early Ritchie & Thompson implementation, right?

Of course.  My memory has never been detail-oriented, and my last
contact at Bell Labs, one Art Schawlow, has passed on, so I couldn't ask
him to refresh my memory <frown>.

> Kernighan and Ritchie did the first C compiler... :-)

As I certainly should have remembered <frown>.  Used an early
implementation on a TRS-80 model 1, and also to program some low level
CP/M routines for hard disk access at Lobo, in Goleta, Calif.

Jeff
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