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From: tighe@convex.com (Mike Tighe)
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Subject: Re: Student suspended for distributing /etc/passwd
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.153930.27219@convex.com>
Date: 12 Jun 91 15:39:30 GMT
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In article <1991Jun12.122421.15562@ms.uky.edu> sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
>mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington) writes:
>
>|>What if a student runs cops on /etc/passwd... would this
>|>be considered intent to break into a system and could he thus
>|>be suspended?
>|>
>
>|Yes. Obtaining other users' passwords without proper authorization
>|is forbidden. Even if you do it by using a standard software tool
>|rather than by breaking into their desks.

Perhaps this is a bad analogy, but by the above logic it would seem to me
that you would consider it intent to break-in if a student puts his hand on
the computer room door, and tries to enter. You are immediately assuming he
has evil intent.
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