What You Can and Cannot Do
Use the Login machines to run:
- Interactive programs that require active participation from users, such as pine, or vi
- Compilers, such as cc and gcc, and other programming and debugging tools
- Programs to connect to other services, such as ssh
- Small programs that do not interfere with the other applications running on the ITS Login Service
Do not use the Login machines to run programs that:
- Need to run overnight
- Attempt to elevate your privileges on the host machine in an unauthorized manner
- Attack other machines connected to the Internet in terms of either denying service or elevating privileges
- Spam, or send a large number of unsolicited e-mails
- Donate U-M processor time to non-affiliated groups (No distributed.net or SETI@home clients)
System Administrators Reserve the Right to:
- Stop any job that is using too much of the computer's resources, such as
- A program taking longer than 10 minutes to adjust
- A program that is still running after you have logged out
- A program having an adverse impact on other users or on machine performance
- Remove any files or data left in either the /tmp or /var/tmp directories
- Stop any program running on a Login machine that provides services to unauthorized users