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- From: john@iastate.edu (John Hascall)
- Subject: Re: User registration on diverse computer systems
- Message-ID: <1992Aug29.151754.27136@news.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- References: <5673@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk> <yvcnv6a@lynx.unm.edu> <1992Aug27.190847.10292@bcars64a.bnr.ca>
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 15:17:54 GMT
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- sfreed@lacerta.unm.edu (Steve Freed) writes:
- >Anyone wanting a computer account logs into any Unix system as the user "new"
- >where they are prompted for a variety of information including UNM ID number,
- >Name, date of birth, the system(s) they want accounts on (MVS, CMS, VMS,
- >Unix, etc.), the login name they wish to use and the password they want.
- ...
- >This whole process is done without human intervention. (Look ma, no hands!!!)
-
- schow@bqneh3.bnr.ca (Stanley T.H. Chow) writes:
- }Without human intervention, how do you verify ID?
-
- }Another way of looking at it is that anyone knowing the UNM ID number and
- }birthdate of someone can get accounts in the victim's name.
-
- Our registration process is similar, but every month it generates a postcard
- for each new registrant, "Welcome to ... if you don't have the first clue
- what we are talking about, someone is using the system in your name, please
- call ...". This is mailed to the person's official university address.
-
- It does have a hands-on step though :-( A clerk has to put stamps on the
- ones for students living off-campus (we use on-campus mail for those with
- an office faculty/staff/GAs and dorm residents, so it's not too many).
-
- John
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- John Hascall ``Live with it pink-boy!''
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- Iowa State University Computation Center john@iastate.edu
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