If your system uses any external telecommunications, a screen warning banner must appear prior to the log on sequence. Public Law 99-474 requires that a warning message be displayed, notifying unauthorized users that they have accessed a U.S. Government computer system and unauthorized use can be punished by fines or imprisonment. NOAA
requires that every computer system owned by NOAA have a warning banner
at every access point (i.e, FTP, telnet, web pages, remote log in). Every
computer will require changes to its system files to ensure that a banner
is displayed whenever the system is turned on or a user attempts to log
on. That banner must warn authorized and unauthorized users as to
The
technical details for implementing banners are dependent on particular
operating systems and access points. To help in this endeavor, the Computer
Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC) has compiled banners for different
access points for the following platforms: Macintosh, Windows NT, Windows
95, 98 Windows 3.11, DOS, and UNIX systems. The following links are provided
to assist system administrators in creating banners, and to provide examples:
CIAC - Create Warning Banners To create banner for NOAA WEB Pages Department of Commerce List of Screen Warnings Windows
2000 Banner Information
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