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- From: john@iastate.edu (John Hascall)
- Subject: Screen lock (was Re: [comp.admin.policy] Re: New Princeton Policy)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.024831.8616@news.iastate.edu>
- Followup-To: comp.admin.policy
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- References: <1992Sep9.192753.20943@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 02:48:31 GMT
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- [Note Followups]
- kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie) writes:
- }[A repost - Carl]
- }Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy
- }From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
- }Olaf> == Olaf Titz <S_TITZ@iravcl.ira.uka.de>
- }
- } Princeton> ... You must not lock a workstation or computer
- } Princeton> which is in a public facility.
-
- } 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".
-
- We considered a similar hack to xlock -- but decided that it would take
- about a day for some student to ftp and compile a virgin copy and about
- another day for it to find its way to all the usual xlock abusers.
-
- For now, we just tell people to feel free to reboot if the workstation
- has been xlocked 15 minutes.
-
- John
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