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- From: morgan@ms.uky.edu (Wes Morgan)
- Subject: Re: WLU sys admins search out "nasty" filenames and passwords
- References: <1992Aug13.182157.5688@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.170321.22549@ms.uky.edu>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 21:03:21 GMT
- Organization: The Puzzle Palace, UKentucky
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- >[This article, by Jim Boyce, jboyce1@mamut.wlu.ca, appeared on July
- >14th in the Wilfrid Laurier University's student newspaper, the Cord.
- >It is posted with Jim Boyce's permission.]
- >
- > O'Grady said that she has not seen the program running since
- >that time but has concerns that it might be "masked" or kept
- >dormant until she has left the university. She continues to check
- >for it regularly and maintains her opposition to such actions by
- >Computing Services: "it is totally ridiculous for any individual
- >or small group of individuals to determine the language that
- >students, or even professors, use."
-
- That's interesting; I just received a complaint last week about a
- program named "shit". It had been placed in the background, and
- it required several hours of runtime. I sent the owner of the pro-
- gram a note, explaining the complaints; I also mentioned that, while
- I didn't plan to "take any action", any further complaints would be
- directed to him. In his reply, he apologized (he didn't realize that
- other users could see his command names via ps) and changed the name
- immediately.
-
- I wonder what would have happened if the original admins had simply
- asked the users of such language to refrain from doing so. How do
- these people stand the monolithic approach?
-
- --Wes
-
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