[X-Unix] Backdoor method to add users

[luke]

On Monday, February 23, 2004, at 04:22  PM, Stroller wrote:

>
> On Feb 23, 2004, at 4:02 pm, William H. Magill wrote:
>
> Both client & server versions of OS X are exactly the same under the 
> hood - a much better analogy is that they are both the same make & 
> type of car, except that OS X server has the higher-end "trim" & 
> "options" for more demanding drivers.

i mostly agree here...

>
> If OS X server is a general-purpose, multi-user, time-sharing, Unix 
> system, then so is OS X client - as I understand it the only 
> difference between the two is a few GUI admin goodies. I do agree that 
> is a reasonable expectation that most workstation- and domestic-users 
> would have no need to add more than 99 users,


I am the ONLY user of TWO of my macs on my network...

i have SEVERAL users - but not human users...

a 'user' is not always a human being...  i have several 'users' that 
are merely different operating environments...

some are there merely because a particular service needs to have it's 
own 'user'...

I seem to remember them pushing the idea that OS X client was 'rock 
solid unix' under the hood... not a partial implementation...

Is the Kernel licensed under an open-source type agreement?

Which parts of OS X are 'open source'  and which parts are based on 
'free' (so to speak) Unix
  or public BSD or whatever?






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