From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!hp-pcd!kirk\!russ Newsgroups: net.followup Title: Re: Re: Mark, where are you ?? - (nf) Article-I.D.: hp-pcd.670 Posted: Mon Feb 14 12:04:17 1983 Received: Thu Feb 17 05:31:59 1983 #R:avsdT:-27700:kirk:19600001:000:1039 kirk!russ Feb 10 09:20:00 1983 I was involved in a similar case while an IC designer at HP. \Someone/ aborted a DRC (magic - don't worry about it) job which cost me a day of time. A single day is important in the IC business. We have a MICOM (tm) port selector, which allows one to connect to any of our computers from any terminal. The port selector keeps a log of what connections it makes. \Someone/ signed onto a person's account, signed onto my account, aborted my job, and signed back onto the other person's account. From the port selector log, we saw that \someone/ signed onto the person's account from a terminal near the person's desk. Also, the person stood to gain from my job's aborting -- his job would start running. After all was said and done, the computer manager talked to the person's manager, but nothing ever came of it. There was no way to prove that the person who signed onto the computer was really the owner of the account. (We don't use passwords here -- they're considered unfriendly). Russ Nelson ...hp-pcd!hp-cvd!kirk