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- From: kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: [comp.admin.policy] Re: New Princeton Policy
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.192753.20943@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 19:27:53 GMT
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- [A repost - Carl]
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- From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
- Subject: Re: New Princeton Policy
- Message-ID: <CKD.92Sep9143724@loiosh.eff.org>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 18:37:26 GMT
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- Olaf> == Olaf Titz <S_TITZ@iravcl.ira.uka.de>
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- Princeton> 8. You must not prevent others from using shared resources
- Princeton> by running unattended processes or placing signs on devices
- Princeton> to "reserve" them without authorization. Your absence from a
- Princeton> public computer or workstation should be no longer than
- Princeton> warranted by a visit to the nearest restroom. A device
- Princeton> unattended for more than ten minutes may be assumed to be
- Princeton> available for use, and any process running on that device
- Princeton> terminated. You must not lock a workstation or computer
- Princeton> which is in a public facility.
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- Olaf> This means: 'If you must go to the restroom you HAVE to leave the
- Olaf> terminal open, so that other users can terminate your session if
- Olaf> they need the machine.' This is IMO simply unacceptable. Other
- Olaf> policies would REQUIRE to lock the terminal to prevent tampering
- Olaf> with your account.
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- MIT's Athena workstation policy is that you can lock it for no more than
- 20 minutes before someone can feel free to reboot it or otherwise
- "forcibly unlock" it. The "standard" screenlocker has a displayed timer
- of "how long I've been locked".
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- Perhaps Princeton could provide a similar one with a button (cleaner
- than a reboot, especially since MIT Athena workstation can't have rlogin
- users ;-) that would only appear after N minutes, saying "break lock and
- kill X server". This would protect accounts while keeping workstation
- resources available.
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