Re: Help! I'm accused of breaching security!

Brian Peasland (peasland_at_edcmail.cr.usgs.gov) wrote:

: > Perhaps the DBA has auditing turned on and saw some entries which indicated
: > that you were doing things that you were not authorized for.

: If the user was not authorized to do these things, then that too would
: be the fault of the DBA. Initially, I would guess that the DBA did have
: auditing turned on. If it was me and I found that a user was doing
: something I didn't want them to do, I would be red faced and fix the
: problem rather than espouse security issues.

: HTH,
: Brian

It would also depend on what you were told you were allowed to do. If you were given permission to use the PC for your assignments which used MS Access, then you don't automatically get to use other things on the PC.

As an analogy, if you have access to the company van then it doesn't mean you get to help your friend move house.

Also depends on what you were doing. If someone has access to a PC so they can browse the web, and then goes to the DOS prompt and types delete \*.* then it's going to look pretty suspicious, and one would suspect they aren't just "learning" about the PC.

my $0.02
-- Received on Wed Feb 02 2000 - 13:29:33 CST