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  • #16
    At old job, the supervisors had shell access, the regulars didn't. The only person that knew what kind of mischief one could get up to with even a non-root shell account on a random UNIX box was me. Sometimes the supervisors would forget to log out. They would then find a message next time they logged in explaining that they really should log out every time, this wasn't the worst thing that could happen, and they could knock on IT's door and ask for Mycroft and he'd stop this message occurring (and force them to change their password).

    One person didn't, for a couple of months. I found him on the floor, and suggested I could fix it for him. He said he liked seeing it every time as a reminder. I suggested I could make the message less obnoxious and more "please remember to log out." He took me up on *that* offer. Smart, really, I thought.

    Standard around here is "email to group offering to buy lunch."

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    • #17
      Hell, one of my instructors even told us that if we wanted to look at porn at school, do it when someone doesn't log out of their student account.
      they tried that (somewhat) on my second ship. one sailor had left the command but never bothered telling ADP - possibly on purpose... his coworkers used the account for surfing porn, thinking they'd never be caught.

      i don't know if they ever got written up for it but... it's not like we couldn't figure out which computer it was coming from. and of course, once it was discovered, the account got disabled.


      tho on the public computer, i made a point of making sure i wouldn't stay logged into AIM, M3C, or here... not that i expect a lot of others to actually know about m3c or cs.com but i don't believe in trusting either

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