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- Message-ID: <CWIS-L%93012117464994@WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU>
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 10:20:00 EST
- Sender: "Campus-Wide Information Systems" <CWIS-L@WUVMD.BITNET>
- From: "David J. Henry" <DAVE@UMDD.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: CWIS, INTERNET and anonymous users!
- In-Reply-To: Message of Fri,
- 15 Jan 1993 14:39:23 EST from <trudel@ERE.UMONTREAL.CA>
- Lines: 43
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- On Fri, 15 Jan 1993 14:39:23 EST Trudel Guy said:
- >
- > Has anyone yet established a policy concerning these matters? In
- > other words, do you let anybody having access to your system through
- > the public telephone network, connect to the gateways to the Internet,
- > or do they have first to log in to a computer on which they have an
- > account before they can connect to a gateway to the Internet.
- >
- What we have done here at the University of Maryland is to restrict telnet
- access for users with anonymous access via dial-up. We know when the user is
- coming from our dial-in pool and in that case we don't allow people to telnet
- to anywhere outside our local domain. Otherwise, there is no restriction.
- All that a user needs to do is access a system within our domain (this requires
- a non-anonymous login somewhere) first and then they can use our CWIS with no
- restrictions. Since all faculty, staff, and students can get a userid, we
- don't see this as a terrible problem.
- s
- This does disable some services for some users, but we felt this was necessary
- to prevent hackers from attacking systems all over the Internet. In fact, one
- of the reasons for implementing these restrictions was that our CWIS was being
- used to break into other systems on the Internet. It IS unfortunate that a
- few hackers have forced us to take this action, but I feel confident that it
- is the right thing to do.
-
- > Is there a risk of conflict with Internet policies?
- >
- I don't know what the official Internet policies are regarding anonymous access
- to the Internet is, but it makes sense to me that it is appropriate to restrict
- such access when it is reasonable and possible to do so.
- >
- >--
- > Guy TRUDEL < trudel@ere.umontreal.ca> tel= (514)343-6111 ext 5256
- > Chef de service fax= (514)343-2155
- > Service d'aide aux usagers (SAU) bureau= Pavillon principal
- > Services informatiques piece T-220
- > Universite de Montreal C.P.6128, suc. "A", Montreal, H3C 3J7
-
- David Henry
- University of Maryland
- Computer Science Center
- College Park
- David_Henry@umail.umd.edu
- dave@umdd.umd.edu
-