Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 14:47:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: MOTD -- Warning banners Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0201021445050.9788-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20020102143242.GD6845@raggedclown.net>
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On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 03:00:47PM +0100, J. S. wrote: > > Does anyone have a nice example of one, with good layout and good "lawyer > > + sysadmin" language? > > > > =) > > Waste of time. > If someone has got into your system they are hardly likely to be > put off by message threatening them with legal action .. at least > not unless you know the legalities of every country in the world. > > You might try: > > "F*uk off, this is private property." General IANAL lore holds that a MOTD with the word "welcome" in it may be "misconstrued" as permission (and therefore grounds for a legal defence); explicit non-permission is therefore handy in the rare circumstance that you will want to prosecute. > I suppose telling them that every keystroke they type is being recorded > may be required legally, although the cracker will probably guess you > are telling lies. > > Any way if he does > # cd / > # rm -rf * > > Recording it isn't going to be much of a comfort. That's what securelevels (and/or remote loghosts) are for. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Talk is cheap: free, as in beer. As in Real Ale, not that Budweiser rubbish. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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