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Article #609Re: Possibly nefarious users
From: Dave Hayes
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1991 19:35
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1991 19:35
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leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson) writes:
>>IMHO, unless a "guest" account user is notified somehow (eg.
>>/etc/motd) that "this account is _only_ for use by faculty in Uni. of
>>X", you don't have a case against anyone outside the U. using the same
>>account, since the scope of "legal use" was not made known to him/her.
>No. The law is exactly the opposite. Unless *you* know that the account
>is for general access, you do not have the right to use it. There are
>legitmate reasons for having a "guest" account (with no password) on a
>system. But just as with an unlocked door, *you* are not the person
>it was left unlocked for.
Can you guys explain, then, the case where charges were dropped in an
unauthorized entry prosecution because the system said: "Welcome to..."?
--
Dave Hayes - Network & Communications Engineering - JPL / NASA - Pasadena CA
dave@elxr.jpl.nasa.gov dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov ames!elroy!dxh
If your own vice happens to be the search for virtue,
recognize that it is so.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jato!dave From: dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Dave Hayes) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy Subject: Re: Possibly nefarious users Message-ID: <1991Jun10.193515.21451@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> Date: 10 Jun 91 19:35:15 GMT References: <2D.-_.N@cs.widener.edu> <1991Jun6.214915.18946@athena.mit.edu> <1991Jun7.164102.672@progress.com> <ADRIANHO.91Jun7190303@barkley.berkeley.edu> <1991Jun10.052806.4214@qiclab.scn.rain.com> Reply-To: dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov Organization: Jet Propulsion Lab - Pasadena, CA Lines: 22