[34401] in Hotline Meeting
Your use of m3-133
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Naomi B. Schmidt)
Mon Aug 19 08:35:29 1996
To: pjw@MIT.EDU
Cc: nschmidt@MIT.EDU, hotline@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 08:35:24 EDT
From: "Naomi B. Schmidt" <nschmidt@MIT.EDU>
Hello Peter -
It has come to my attention that you have been using the RS6000 in
the 3-133 classrooms for remote login in conjunction with an
xserver in your lab or office. As you may or may not be aware,
this is against the Athena Rules of Use (see the excerpt from Rule
A4 below), and I would like to request that you cease this
activity immediately.
>Similarly, altering a workstation's filesystem in any way may
>render the machine unusable, or threaten its usability in other
>ways. For example, you should not reconfigure any workstation in
>an Athena cluster to allow remote connections unless you are
>actually sitting at that workstation. Even an apparently
>"harmless" change such as this (i.e., changing the access
>configuration of a workstation) may create major system security
>problems, and may actually jeopardize MIT's ability to license
>software for users in the future.
This is a particular problem in an electronic classroom, where
instructors expect to have full access to the processing power of
a machine when they are in class.
Naomi Schmidt
Mgr, Planning and Support
MIT Academic Computing
