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Re: Public Access Library Ports (was Re: Open access to student labs
From: "Christopher E. Cramer" <chris.cramer () DUKE EDU>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:43:47 -0500
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Valdis Kletnieks wrote:
On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:21:05 PST, Samuel Young said:We require our students and visitors to logon to our network everywhere. There are a few computers in the library that allow public access, but we are about to close that loop as well.Often, librarians have cows and kittens when the network people threaten to close that loophole (for reasons that are totally justified in their world view). What methods and/or reasoning did sites use to win the political battle (or equally interesting, did the library win)?
Personally, I never saw the point in fighting that battle. The incidents of abuse from these unauthenticated computers are so few and the benefit to the library's mission so great that we never saw a point in forcing them to authenticate on these computers. We have taken steps to minimize the problems from the rare cases where people do abuse the computers, but all in all, it's been a partnership, not a fight. -chris -- Christopher E. Cramer, Ph.D. University Information Technology Security Officer Duke University, Office of Information Technology 334 Blackwell St., Suite 2106, Durham, NC 27701 PH: 919-660-7003 FAX: 919-660-7076 CELL: 919-210-0528
Current thread:
- Re: Public Access Library Ports (was Re: Open access to student labs Julian Y. Koh (Dec 21)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Public Access Library Ports (was Re: Open access to student labs Christopher E. Cramer (Dec 21)
- Re: Public Access Library Ports (was Re: Open access to student labs David Warner (Dec 21)
- Re: Public Access Library Ports (was Re: Open access to student labs Wayne Bullock (Dec 21)
- Re: Public Access Library Ports (was Re: Open access to student labs Wayne Bullock (Dec 21)
- Re: Public Access Library Ports (was Re: Open access to student labs Sheri J Thompson (Dec 21)
- Re: Public Access Library Ports (was Re: Open access to student labs Samuel Young (Dec 21)
- Re: Public Access Library Ports (was Re: Open access to student labs Wayne Bullock (Dec 21)
- Re: Public Access Library Ports (was Re: Open access to student labs Joey Rego (Dec 21)
- Re: Public Access Library Ports (was Re: Open access to student labs Bill Betlej (Dec 21)
- Re: Public Access Library Ports (was Re: Open access to student labs Chris Allison (Dec 21)
- Re: Public Access Library Ports (was Re: Open access to student labs David Gillett (Dec 21)
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