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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (caterina@MIT.EDU)
Wed Oct 30 13:36:09 1996
From: caterina@MIT.EDU
To: mingqi@MIT.EDU
Cc: hotline@MIT.EDU, caterina@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 13:36:05 EST
Hi,
I was given your email address at the Ocean Engineering Headquarters.
As you may know, the "access permission" in the machine catamaran,
here in the OE cluster, has been changed, as well as the root password
and users who have nothing to do with the OE department are
systematically logging in into this computer.
Several times, when I login into catamaran I cannot even list
my files, because this has become like a public machine (like
milanese, etc). I found out who these people are and asked them
to logout, and that this is a private workstation, for the use
of OE students and authorized by the department users.
They have ignored both mine, and other people's requests to stop
logging in into the machine.
A couple of days ago, I know that someone here in the cluster, who was
working at catamaran and could not do anything, due to the number of
users logged in into it, logged in into the machine as root, to kill
the login sessions of those who were not authorized to use the
machine, and even less to remote login.
The unauthorized user instead of complying with the request to logout,
rebooted the machine, from his remote location, thus killing all the
user's jobs. I subsequently logged in into the machine to do my work,
and this user, apparently found this to be an interesting game, and
kept rebooting the machine from far away. He killed my jobs, which
take a very long time to run.
The following users use the machine, without being authorized to do
so (I will give you the user names). There are others, but I do not
remember their user names.
lysi@mit.edu
andy1@mit.edu
pcmac@mit.edu
mkamvyss@mit.edu
petrosb@mit.edu
Please do something about it. I cannot work and fear that someone will
be killing my jobs, or slow down my work. This is a problem with other
machines, too. The three first users of those that I listed, just
ignore the requests to logout and not to use the machine.
I do not know if you have received any other emails, but I know some
people were very frustrated the other day about the situation.
Thank you,
Caterina Stamoulis
