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From: bhv@areaplg2.corp.mot.com (Bronis Vidugiris)
Subject: Re: Should we let students run COPS to get each other's passwords?
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 91 23:41:51 GMT

In article <1991Jun12.141657.29238@athena.cs.uga.edu> mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington) writes:
)A few people here have been advocating the strange idea that UNIX users
)have a moral right to obtain each other's passwords using COPS. I have a few
)responses...

I imagine you can justify not allowing use of certain programs, such as COPS,
just as you can attempt to disallow people from running 'game' programs on
the school machines.  And probably, with about equal success....

I think, however, that the real problem is not in knowing other student's
passwords, but using their accounts without permission or authorization.

Anyway, if just 'knowing' other people's passwords is a crime, I'm guilty.  I
know several - mainly because people don't want the hassle of learning how to
ftp files around our heterogeneous internal computer network.

It seems to me that a shadow password file, as other posters have suggested,
is a much more realistic way to attempt to keep a lid on things.

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