We have all (most of us anyway) been drilled by the conventional wisdom 

of not having a helpful log on prompt.



In other words the typical log on colon prompt (:).



Or even my EMPIRE machine's EMPIRECLASSIC: prompt.



So I get hundreds of attempted log ons a day.  None of them successful 

by the way.  They are either attempting something linux, windows, or 

apple with single word users.  With honorable mention to the SSH 

attempts that my HP3000 doesn't even understand.



And at best, I have three or four players on my EMPIRE game, ever.  (And 

that's because they know how to enter a HELLO.)



But anyway for the sake of argument, suppose I changed my EMPIRECLASSIC: 

prompt to read:



ENTER: HELLO USER.GAMES



Then they'll see the possible log ons that I allow.  Now that would be 

against the conventional wisdom of allowing a "helpful" log on prompt.  

(As written in the Security/3000 manual.)



What of it?  Do I want the random hackers to log into my games?



-- 

Tracy Johnson

BT















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