On 5/15/2011 11:16 AM, Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. wrote: > Policy is that our desktops lock at 20 minutes, though I once worked at a > place where the policy was 5 minutes....though admittedly, 2 of the 3 people > on the committee were running seti@home.... I'm pretty sure DoD policy is 10 > minutes (though they recommend shorter if possible). I want to say that state > policy is 60 days on passwords, but the university is exempt. I'm required by our head office to do an audit or all workstations and laptops to ensure that all have a 5 minute locking screensaver on them, along with antivirus etc. Have to run some auditing software through locally on all machines as admin. Thankfully that's only 20 odd, but it's still rather irritating. Of course the software doesn't work under Linux or Mac OSx, so those of us who have such running on their workstations have to confirm to me that everything is set up correctly, and corporate apparently just takes my word for it. All staff are required by the policy to lock their workstations anyway when they leave their desk. I suspect I'm the only one who actually does so. That comes from a habit born out of my first sysadmin job where anyone failing to lock their workstation would come back to find their wallpaper had been changed to Goatse (or other 'punishments' like that)
Paul p.s. A strict interpretation of the IT Policy would suggest that every single workstation has to run Windows to match certain criteria, but I know some of our sister companies are entirely Mac OSx places, and one is entirely Ubuntu. I'll enforce most parts of the IT policy, but stupidly written passages I've re-interpreted (e.g. anti-virus instead of specific windows-only brand), with GM blessing. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
