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sfreed@lacerta.unm.edu (Steve Freed) writes:
>Anyone wanting a computer account logs into any Unix system as the user "new"
>where they are prompted for a variety of information including UNM ID number,
>Name, date of birth, the system(s) they want accounts on (MVS, CMS, VMS, 
>Unix, etc.), the login name they wish to use and the password they want.
...
>This whole process is done without human intervention. (Look ma, no hands!!!)

schow@bqneh3.bnr.ca (Stanley T.H. Chow) writes:
}Without human intervention, how do you verify ID?

}Another way of looking at it is that anyone knowing the UNM ID number and
}birthdate of someone can get accounts in the victim's name.

Our registration process is similar, but every month it generates a postcard
for each new registrant, "Welcome to ... if you don't have the first clue
what we are talking about, someone is using the system in your name, please
call ...".  This is mailed to the person's official university address.

It does have a hands-on step though :-(  A clerk has to put stamps on the
ones for students living off-campus (we use on-campus mail for those with
an office faculty/staff/GAs and dorm residents, so it's not too many).

John
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