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Comment by ggm

Back in the 90s we were told ostentatiously to include "unauthorised access is not permitted" to the login prompt.

Why? Because the login prompt said "please login:" and this was being read by some bush lawyer as an invitation to connect, and therefore would impede a case if we had a hacker login with a stolen password.

I think it was founded on urban myth, but I assure you this is what we were told to do: add text to make it plain, the invitation was to legitemate users only.

I felt the sudo warning was in the same spirit.

parent ggm 1 year ago

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