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- From: kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: [comp.admin.policy] Re: New Princeton Policy
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.025143.18709@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 02:51:43 GMT
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- [A repost - Carl]
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- Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy
- From: jaw@owlnet.rice.edu (Joseph A. Watters)
- Subject: Re: New Princeton Policy
- Message-ID: <BuBxzz.A21@rice.edu>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 21:21:33 GMT
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- In article <CKD.92Sep9143724@loiosh.eff.org>, ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis) writes:
- |> 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.
- |>
- |> 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".
- |>
- |> 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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- At Rice, we have an X windows lockscreen program with a twenty minute
- timer. After twenty minutes, the lockscreen itself logs the user out.
- The logout is pretty clean. The only thing we haven't solved yet is
- how to get the user's .logout file to be read on logout by the
- lockscreen program.
-
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- Rice University
- Houston, Texas
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- Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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