[committee] Account locked: Sam Spencer

Samuel Spencer theodore at ucc.asn.au
Mon Mar 16 22:33:10 WST 2009


Wheel at ucc,

I am formally requesting a copy of all data stored on mussel in my
homedirectory at /home/ucc/theodore/
Please forward these files as soon as possible.

Regards,

Samuel Spencer.

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Grahame Bowland <grahame at angrygoats.net> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Someone was helpful enough to point out that there were still some
> processes running as 'theodore' on UCC machines. I've killed those
> processes. I also realised you could get into the MySQL server over
> the network and it wasn't using normal passwords, so I've locked Sam
> out of that.
>
> Cheers
> Grahame
>
> 2009/3/16 Samuel Spencer <theodore at ucc.asn.au>:
>> All,
>>
>> This has blown hugely out-of-proportion. So I'm going to lay this straight out.
>> Firstly, yes how I created that account was dumb, and I apologies to
>> Scott[SJY] at the the time for the trouble it caused.
>> However, I created it as a contact account to help organise a club social event.
>>
>> I have a class tomorrow at the same time as the committee meeting and
>> I have an assignment due in 3 days for CITS2232.
>> Because CSSE took a while to setup MySQL access at the uni servers I
>> have been using it at UCC.
>>
>> My sudo access to add-user has been taken away and I won't (nor can't
>> do this again). So in light of this may I please just have my access
>> back so this can all just go away, and I can just get back to my
>> studies?
>> I promise I wont do anything to get the club riled up any more.
>>
>> Sam.
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Anil Sharma <Grand Poobah Maset>
>> <maset at ucc.asn.au> wrote:
>>> Dear Sam
>>>
>>> You were recently placed in a position of trust (sudo access to add user
>>> accounts) because of your membership in door and coke groups, and because
>>> the club needed someone in the clubroom to add accounts. By creating a
>>> fictitious account without the authorisation of wheel, or even consulting
>>> wheel to see if creating an account necessary or allowed you broke the trust
>>> placed in you. This is also besides the point of breaking UWA and UCC
>>> acceptable use policies.
>>>
>>> I understand that the damage has been undone, but your actions to begin with
>>> were unacceptable and punishable by an account locking. Please go to the
>>> next committee meeting to explain why you should be allowed account access.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Anil Sharma
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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