[committee] Account locked: Sam Spencer

[Anil Sharma <Grand Poobah Maset>]

Hi Sam

Unfortunately a gzip'd tar of your home directory is 1.3 GB.

Can you wait until after 4pm tomorrow?

Cheers,
Anil

On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Samuel Spencer wrote:

> 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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