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Re: Secure setup for file transfer

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Panzer Boy)
Fri Mar 10 15:14:01 1995

To: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
From: panzer@dhp.com (Panzer Boy)
Date: 10 Mar 1995 12:24:27 -0500
Reply-To: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu

Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) wrote:
: implement better social controls and disciplinary actions.  I know that if
: someone in our academic computing environment tried this juvenile tty crap,
: they'd hear from several sysadmins, a few professors, and a bunch of
: students: this type of antisocial behavior would simply not be tolerated.

This whole statement is based on the fact that you could figure out who 
had done it.  This is not always possible, and preventing it from being 
able to happen in the first place requires very little activity on the 
part of the sysadmin.

-- 
 -Matt     (panzer@dhp.com)                         DI-1-9026
 "That which can never be enforced should not be prohibited."

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