this is an awesome comment. I have spent many hours (days?) reading through your site - especially the NeWS stuff!
https://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/lisp/mylisp/ollie
https://chat.openai.com/share/bd1e4fc6-c1c1-499f-aca5-12cbd9...
The intruder was able to log into the professor's Sun 3/60 workstation from mimsy thanks to his .rhosts file! Things were so much simpler those days.
; host mimsy
(make file ^name passwd ^writable yes ^owner root ^host mimsy)
(make user ^user root ^password unknown ^host mimsy)
(make user ^user casper ^password unknown ^host mimsy)
(make rhosts ^user casper ^host mimsy
^ruser casper ^rhost tycho)
(make user ^user hendler ^password unknown ^host mimsy)
(make rhosts ^user hendler ^host mimsy
^ruser hendler ^rhost dormouse)
; host dormouse
(make user ^user root ^password unknown ^host dormouse)
(make user ^user sysdiag ^password none ^host dormouse)
(make user ^user hendler ^password unknown ^host dormouse)
(make rhosts ^user hendler ^host dormouse
^ruser hendler ^rhost mimsy)