Isn't it now once a day? That's what I thought. "You will be required to authenticate daily." is what I think it reads.
And apparently you have never been in on-campus housing where someone with a virus can take down the connection to an entire building. Or maybe you weren't on campus for the time a CSR got rooted and flooded the entire network. It takes a lot for a switched network to go down, but he was able to do it. I have been in the hot seat when trying to track down these worms and miscellaneous spyware. Trust me, if authenticating causes you an inconvenience, it is nowhere near the inconvenience you would feel if it wasn't there. People get pretty furious when we haven't found the worm-infected computer in less than 30 seconds... Brian -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jacob Albretsen Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2005 3:12 PM To: BYU Unix Users Group Subject: Re: [uug] BYU net authentication. On Friday 02 December 2005 12:53 pm, Brian Phillips wrote: > If you can prove to OIT that it is dumb enough not to be able to > authenticate, and secure enough not to get viruses, they will make > exceptions to the authentication as well. Somewhere in that statement, there is a good joke about OIT. While doing all this, be sure to at least attack the root of the REAL problem. Write OIT and tell them your feelings about having to authenticate once a week. Also remind them that they have not been true to their word, which is when they first put the system in place over a year ago, they said authentication was only going t be once a semester (at least that is what the reps told me back then). The statement at the bottom of the login screen about being required to login once a week at the beginning of the fall semester due to security concerns was a statement they put up in *Fall 2004*. Let's see... yep, it's not 2004 anymore. It's almost 2006! -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
