From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 2 6:48:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0CA037B41A for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 06:48:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 14:48:17 +0000 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 16Lmfw-0004vV-00; Wed, 02 Jan 2002 14:47:28 +0000 Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 14:47:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: MOTD -- Warning banners In-Reply-To: <20020102143242.GD6845@raggedclown.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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