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Re: Supervisor Lockout

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From: Kevin Parris
Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 00:00
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Also, I believe that "enable login" at the server console will unlock 
the Supervisor account.

And I agree with you there should always be at least one 
super-equivalent account, or one other account that is MANAGER of 
Supervisor.  Most of the "network manager is gone, we don't know the 
password" problems could be avoided with strategy like this.

In article <3pcl2s$31o@mercury.kingston.ac.uk>, bs_s474@kingston.ac.uk 
says...
>
>Leslie Styles (lms@soton.ac.uk) wrote:
>: Is there any way to remove Supervisor from the Intruder Detection 
Lockout
>: scheme. Although we do want to use lockout for all our user accounts, 
we
>: don't want people to be able to lock the Supervisor account by simply
>: typing login supervisor and not giving a password three times.
>
>No. Give your supervisor a 'backdoor' account - use that account to 
unlock the
>supervisor.
>
>Ted Slade
>tedslade@kingston.ac.uk

-- 
Kevin Parris
kparris@sunbelt.net
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From: kparris@sunbelt.net (Kevin Parris)
Subject: Re: Supervisor Lockout
Date: 1995/05/17
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