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

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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