A way to monitor your files

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL
Wed Sep 13 19:05:00 AEST 1989


In article <4125 at buengc.BU.EDU> bph at buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>I tell users that if they really want me not to see their stuff
>they should use encrypt(1) or move it off the machine.

That's what I told the fellow.

>I don't snoop, but I don't hesitate to look if I have a reason.

Make sure that your users are aware of this.  I once got someone
mad at me when I noticed purely by accident while investigating
some system problem that a user needed to be tipped off to the
fact that her files weren't totally inaccessible to others, and
did so..



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