[lug] CYA

[Randy Arabie]

JD,

Take Ralf's advice, everything you send to a list like this becomes a 
a running archive of your "online life".

Just take a look at this link:

http://archive.lug.boulder.co.us/bymonth/2002.09/msg00371.html

Think before you send.

Ralf's advice regarding your options in this current situation are on target.

On Tue, 1 Oct 2002 rm at fabula.de wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 06:43:32PM +0000, j davis wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> >  I admin a firewall for a company....things are not going so well
> > between them and me. I dont want them to be able to lock me out 
> 
> As a matter of fact, since they own the box, they have all rights to
> do so, and even attempting to circumivent this might get you into serious
> trouble (esp. after anouncing it in the bulic -- jd, this post will
> stay arround for probably the rest of you career in archives like 
> Google! Do you really think _anybody_ hires an admin that's openly thinking
> about locking his customer out of their hardware?).
> 
> > one
> > day and keep using my personal code for ther use. 
> 
> Are you shure it's _your_ code? Unless you have an absolutly watertight
> contract that states that all code and configuration data produced during
> the work involved belongs to you, you better don't touch that stuff. Other-
> wise you destroy _their_ property (and they can and probably will sue you).
> 
> > So, they are not that
> > linux savy. If i remove my iptable scrip i could cripple the whole
> > network...but this requires root...wich i have for now. Could i remove
> > the exe "passwd" without breaking anything...to keep asshole from changing
> > root. I dont really want to trojan the box....i just dont want the company 
> > using
> > my firwall scrips and personall admin scrips after i am gone.
> 
> That's something you should have thought of before starting to work -- not
> now. And, just as a good advice: you better do super good work for them
> from now on, otherwise, in case of a legal fight, they might accuse you of
> intentional bad work and use your posting here as evidence.
> 
>   Ralf Mattes
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Randy