On: The Rise and Fall of Silicon Graphics

[axpvms]

>Also, Irix was hilariously insecure due in part to its closed source nature.

That was in addition to having three default accounts with well known passwords and a telnet server.

[icedchai → axpvms]

Some versions of IRIX (4.x, maybe?) also defaulted to having X11 authentication disabled. Anyone in the office could "xmelt" your screen... or worse.

[nyrikki → icedchai]

Oracle EBS required root X11 authentication be disabled to use the compositor for PDF generation even 10 years later so still pretty common.

Oracle threatened to not support us when I used an unprivileged Xvfb instqance instead.

Still stupid but not that uncommon back then.