[2717] in Athena Bugs
Re: surrpetitious mail from olc_answers (browser)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris VanHaren)
Mon Aug 7 09:36:56 1989
To: John T Kohl <jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: henry@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, bug-olc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
From: Chris VanHaren <vanharen@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 89 09:36:23 EDT
>> Because it is not documented.
It will be documented in the next release.
>> The Kerberos logs, when used for statistics, are abstracted in a way to
>> prevent violation of an individual's privacy.
The statistics gathered from the stock answer browser have been
similarly abstracted.
>> If you sent mail from root, rather than the user, it would still give
>> you the numbers, but protect the exposure of the user (by avoiding
>> putting his name on the mail).
As I understand it, it is not possible to change the sender's name
without running as root, and setuid programs on NFS don't work.
Besides, then the concept of unique users is lost. If you have a better
method, I'm sure we'd be more than happy to install it.
In the meantime, the "offending" line has been removed.
Thanks for using OLC!
Chris VanHaren
