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From: Roy Rapoport ,K)gT\u&[2D>'./myn[q^j1u{#&"D<Q
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Following are the official [late] minutes for the OCF Board of Directors meeting of thursday, October 24, 1991.
Ensuing some difficulties involving the Engineering Alumni Association and the 'White-Haired Bitch" (allusion to "Blue-Eyed Devil", of course), and their gall in appropriating both 120A and 120B Bechtel for their inconsequential dealings, we started at about 7:03 BST.
1) Attendance: The following people were in 120B Bechtel after we finished kicking the other people out: psb pbrown moray rsr ctl chamm alanc gwh ianb nweaver davidf kmorgan kit norby cgd adam(richter) karat evil blojo dpassage
7:07 David demonstrated his prowess.
2) Barbeque: We decided in one of the earliest meetings to have a barbeque this semester. During this meeting we decided not to, but rather try to do it next semester. 12 people voted for putting it off to next semester. 0 people voted for not putting it off to next semester.
7:10: chamm mentioned margaret
3) Margaret dpassage argued that only people who know Margaret should be allowed to mention her. His proposal was struck down. Margaret.
4) ianb self-nominated himself for the BoD (of course, that's kind of
redundant, not to mention repetitive).
Around 11 people voted for him.
Around 1 people voted against him.
5) gwh motioned that votes that have been folded more than 4 times not be counted, but withdrew his motion after a paper vote on the motion was suggested.
6) Password Cracking policy:
During the past week, an account that had a password cracker (Crack
3.2, which isn't even the latest version of Crack, and is available
via anonymous ftp from a plethora of computers) was turned off
because of that. During the BoD meeting the subject of password
crackers came up.
The issue is whether or not to allow them:
The side that says that they should be allowed claims that it would be
VERY BAD for us to start restricting what kind of files other people
have in their directories.
The side that says they should not be allowed claims that they have
no real legitimate use and that they jeopardise cluster security.
A plethora of arguments passed back and forth, and the point that
under some circumstances (limited circumstances), they may have a
valid use. Some people actually claimed that it may even be OK to
run them, but most people did not agree.
7:55 Jen was mentioned {cgd's [(girl)friend]}
In the end, we voted on the following policy articulation:
"Possession of password-cracking programs on the OCF is
legitimate. Cracking passwords on the OCF is not a legitimate use
of the OCF or of the aforementioned programs, and can/will be
sufficient cause for staff to turned an account off. If staff sees
somebody running a password-cracking program, staff may ask that
person to explain his actions. He will have one week to explain
them, and will not use the mentioned programs during that one week
under pain of account termination."
Votes:
Yes votes: 14
No votes: 1 (me)
The meeting was then adjurned.
Have a nice day,
Roy S. Rapoport
OCF Secretary ---- secretary@ocf