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Received: from merk by works.UUCP (UUPC/extended 1.07j); Mon, 08 Jul 91 04:41:34 EDT Received: by merk.COM (smail2.5) id AA11569; 7 Jul 91 22:17:31 EDT (Sun) Received: from harvard.harvard.edu by ursa-major.spdcc.com with SMTP with sendmail-5.61/4.7 id <AA18154@ursa-major.spdcc.com>; Sun, 7 Jul 91 21:15:51 -0400 Received: by harvard.harvard.edu (5.54/a0.25) (for merk!works!LC717) id AA07698; Sun, 7 Jul 91 21:16:48 EDT From: harvard!husc6!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!gnu.ai.mit.edu!tami@ursa-major.spdcc.com () Received: from mit-eddie.UUCP by bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU with UUCP (5.61/25-eef) id AA26640; Sun, 7 Jul 91 20:14:30 EDT Received: from albert.gnu.ai.mit.edu by EDDIE.MIT.EDU with SMTP (5.65/25-eef) id AA03352; Sun, 7 Jul 91 19:19:21 -0400 Received: from kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu by albert.gnu.ai.mit.edu (5.65/4.0) with SMTP id <AA11293@albert.gnu.ai.mit.edu>; Sun, 7 Jul 91 19:21:09 -0400 Received: by kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu (15.11/4.0) id <AA11421@kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu>; Sun, 7 Jul 91 19:20:37 edt Date: Sun, 7 Jul 91 19:20:37 edt Message-Id: <9107072320.AA11421@kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: EDDIE.MIT.EDU!bloom-beacon!spdcc!merk!works!LC717@EDDIE.MIT.EDU Subject: GNU accounts Cc: tami@gnu.ai.mit.edu The Free Software Foundation's primary goal is to promote the creation and distribution of free software. To this end, it is currently engaged in a project to develop a free operating system which everyone can use as a base for developing even more free software. Guest accounts are granted to people who ask for them, for any constructive purpose. There are no fees required to obtain one. To obtain an account, please email the following information to ``request@gnu.ai.mit.edu'': 1) Your real name 2) Your street address (Office address is acceptable) 3) A telephone number where you can be reached 4) Your desired username 5) Desired shell (we have sh, bash, csh, and tcsh). If you have no preference, the default shell is "bash", a Bourne shell derivative. 6) An alternate email adress, if you have one. In the event that you cannot use the username you requested (either because another account already exists by that name or it is in use as a mail alias), the easiest (and cheapest) way to get in contact with you is via email. 6) Password. Because of recent problems the FSF has experienced with some people determined to cause as much trouble as possible for us, we had to tighten security more than we wanted to. What we ask everyone to do now is select a password which is hard for an outsider to guess. Techniques for guessing passwords are well known and reasonably sophisticated, so it is inadvisable to choose a password composed of your initials, birthdate, a nickname, or the name of a friend. In addition, many words are commonly found on online dictionaries which makes it simple to write programs that try variations of words in the dictionary in order to guess passwords. The best sequence for a password is one which is 6 to 8 characters long and contains mixed upper and lower case along with numbers or punctuation. Mnemonics or acronyms make reasonably good passwords and are easy to remember. It is unfortunate that it's necessary to have passwords at all, but because it is, it helps to choose good passwords. Also, because internal security here is lax, it's best to mail the password already encrypted in passwd(5) format. You may be able to use the program included at the end of this message to generate such a password. If not, cleartext passwords will be accepted but it would be advisable to change the password as soon as possible when you first log in. Accounts may not be created right away. Work peripheral to the GNU project is performed by volunteers or the system administrator when time is available. Please be patient. Requests are never ignored. If you have any questions or comments, send mail to request@gnu.ai.mit.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our Snail Mail address is Free Software Foundation 545 Tech Square Rm. 426 Cambridge, Ma. 02139 Attn: Request@gnu Mail (Done) \>