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- From: aelman@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Adam Elman)
- Subject: Re: TALK (giving away passwords)
- Message-ID: <aelman.721967230@Xenon.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: CS Department, Stanford University, California, USA
- References: <MAPPLER.92Nov15211149@titan.ucc.umass.edu> <1992Nov16.215542.5688@nosc.mil>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 02:27:10 GMT
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- wolfgang@nosc.mil (Lewis E. Wolfgang) writes:
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- >I can't speak for other sites, but being a military facility we consider
- >giving out a password a security violation. When a user has an account
- >on a system, he/she may have access to information intended only for other
- >authorized users of that system. Authorized users are considered to be
- >"friendly" and unlikely to try to gain root access or to cause other
- >troubles. Thus, by giving away your password you relinquish control
- >and responsibility for the correct useage of your account.
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- >In our context, a user giving away their password would not only loose
- >their home account, but we would setup one for them at
- >leavenworth.fed.prison.gov :-)
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- I think this is definitely the policy and reasoning followed by most
- sites, including Stanford. But our penalties are not nearly so
- harsh...:-) Although, in all seriousness, giving others access to
- your account may be considered a violation of the Fundamental
- Standard, Stanford's highest honor code, so that egregious violation
- of this policy can result in pretty severe penalties -- but that's
- pretty darn unlikely. I haven't read the policy document lately...
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- Adam Elman
- aelman@cs.stanford.edu
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