BSD Interview Roundup

Some anonymous readers wrote in to let us know about a couple of different interviews in the OpenBSD and NetBSD communities. O'Reilly's ONLamp has an interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie, who maintains a good share of OpenBSD's build tools, as well as having made numerous contributions to the project. OSDN's own NewsForge also has a interview with NetBSD's Luke Mewburn of the NetBSD Core Group.

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Re:My success with OpenBSD

[_Sharp'r_]

This guy (grandparent poster) knows even less about Windows than he does about OpenBSD.

[...] he decided to change all of the Computer Administrator passwords on a few of the XP Professional boxes sitting around in the server room. This caused absolute havoc, as Dell had failed to send along administrator passwords for the new boxes. Our company could not make use of these computers for three days. It took Dell that long to get us the administrator passwords.

So, they got "new boxes" from Dell without administrator passwords and Dell could send them administrator passwords after their employee had changed them? My head spins with the multitude of ways this story contradicts itself.

New boxes don't come with administrator passwords preset.

If they did, their employee couldn't have changed them without knowing them.

If they are new boxes, why would it cause havoc?

If they're smart enough to use OpenBSD, why aren't they smart enough to know to just burn something like knoppix and boot the servers that way to reset the local administrator password?

Or, since they were "new" boxes, just boot from the install media, format and reload them?

Does this guy really think people are dumb enough to fall for such obvious inconsistencies?