SIUC Computing
Advisory Committee
Meeting Minutes
of
Those present:
Ruth Bernhardt, Michelle Cunningham, James Duggan (recorder), JP Dunn, Susan
Logue, Don
Olson (ex-officio), Chih-Fang Wang.
James Duggan
announced that because of the low turnout of CAC members, voting to approve the
new
Don Olson
reported that a flood caused by leaking pipes on Thursday, 28 February, dumped
from 4-6 inches of water in the sub-basement of Wham. Personnel worked all day with shop vacs to
clean the affected areas, which included much of the IT office computer equipment. Don also reported that the Undergraduate
Student Computer Fee Committee was looking at possibly funding more computers
requests as computer prices had fallen since requests were submitted in
September 2001.
Don introduced
Jerry Looft, IT's security person and author of "SIUC Security White
Paper" (distributed to CAC members via this listserv). A short discussion
followed. Chief among the concerns raised were matters outside of IT control:
LAN password security (some department lan's allow
faculty and staff use the same password as their login names) and access to
some departmental pc devices from outside users. A question about how long student kerberos
id's stayed active within the system once the student left SIU was answered
(the id is generally cancelled during the next semester, usually within 6 weeks
of separation; retired faculty/staff id's can continue if IT receives a
specific request to do so). Another
member suggested that users should change their kerberos passwords on a regular
basis as well. Don responded that IT was
exploring a Windows-based kerberos id system, that
would make changing the kerberos id's easier. Jerry explained the process for
assigning new student kerberos id's on campus.
Don encourages
individual department LAN administrators to take advantage of the LAN Admin
listserv and occasional meetings offered throughout the year. A small subcommittee of the LAN Administrator group
will be formed to look at these security issues (JP Dunn volunteered to serve
with this subcommittee).
The next
meeting was set for
Last Updated: Tuesday, March 26, 2002--JPD