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- From: kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: [comp.security.misc] Re: Locking terminals (was Re: New Princeton Policy)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.134309.27825@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Followup-To: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,comp.security.misc
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- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 13:43:09 GMT
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- [A repost - Carl]
-
- From: rik@nella13.cc.monash.edu.au (Rik Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
- Subject: Re: Locking terminals (was Re: New Princeton Policy)
- Message-ID: <rik.716283238@nella13.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Date: 12 Sep 92 07:33:58 GMT
-
- ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis) writes:
-
- >Danny> == Danny McGurl <dsm@prism.gatech.EDU>
-
- > Danny> Heck, we hav trouble keeping people from bringing in cokes into
- > Danny> some of our clusters (even though we have huge signs). Somehow
- > Danny> I think people would laugh at a reguirement to use the system
- > Danny> lockscreen :)
-
- >Simple policy fix: ``If the terminal is locked with anything other than
- >the "standard" lockscreen, it may be rebooted in order to clear the
- >lock.''
-
- There's a similar discussion going on at Monash. Unfortunately the same
- ``solution'' came up here. The problem with Christopher's method is
- that the person who ran the non-standard lockscreen doesn't lose
- by this (any more than a ``log out after 15 mins'' approach), but the
- people who are remotely logged in do lose. You are punishing the
- remote users, just because of one idiot locking the screen the
- ``wrong'' way.
-
- rik.
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