Shared Customer Obligations for Web Site

Intellectual Property Rights: With respect to elements of the Service that provides to Customer, hereby grants Customer a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use those elements of the Services solely during the term of the Agreement and in connection with Customer's use of the Services in compliance with Customer's contract with . All rights with respect to the Services, including, but not limited to, intellectual property or similar rights in or with respect to all or any portion thereof, belong exclusively to or its licensor(s), as applicable, whether or not any hardware, software or service is made available in conjunction with or is embedded in the Services. Customer acknowledges and agrees that title to any software provided hereunder does not pass to Customer under this Agreement and shall at all times remain with or the applicable licensor. Customer shall not (i) remove, modify or obscure any notices of copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights that appear on or during use of any software provided as part of the Services, and/or (ii) cause or permit the reverse engineering, disassembly or decompilation of any software provided as a part of the Services. Customer shall use the software in object code form only. Customer shall not be obligated to make any royalty or other payments with respect to the Services other than as provided in the Agreement.

Internet Connectivity: Customer shall not attempt to circumvent or alter the processes or procedures to measure time, bandwidth utilization, or other methods to document "use" of 's Services.

Abusable Resources: Upon notification of the existence of an abusable open resource, including, but not limited to, an open newsserver, an unsecured mail relay or a smurf amplifier, Customer shall immediately take all necessary steps to avoid any further abuse of such resource. may immediately suspend the affected Services, the Service Order, or terminate the Agreement for any abuse of an open resource that occurs after Customer has been notified pursuant to the foregoing sentence.

The following restrictions only apply if Customer uses the relevant platform with the Services:

UNIX Shared Managed Hosting:

  1. Customer may not create/update/delete accounts created and maintained by the Company. Specifically, the Company account may not be altered in any manner nor may any account with a UID of less than 1000 be altered.
  2. Customer may not change the partitioning or mount points of any drive.
  3. Customer may not create/update/delete any file in the /usr directory tree.
  4. Customer may not install Microsoft© FrontPage Extensions unless updated on the /usr directory tree.
  5. Customer may not create .rhosts or /etc/.host.equiv files.
  6. Customer may not implement any procedure or process that would allow one to login as root without using the root password. Customer may not create suid scripts or programs.
  7. Customer may not alter the system kernel.
  8. Customer may not alter the /sys or /etc/system directory trees or any files contained therein.
  9. Customer may not apply operating system and application patches to software not installed and solely maintained by the Customer, unless notification is given to the Company.
  10. Customer may not change the root shell.
  11. Customer may not alter the contents of /.k5login.
  12. Customer may not alter /etc/fstab or /etc/vfstab.
  13. Customer may not share or export file systems. This includes modifying /etc/exportfs, /etc/dfs/sharetab, and /etc/netgroup.
  14. Customer may not modify the decode or root alias in the /etc/aliases file.
  15. Customer may not change the "identity" of the system. This includes modifying /etc/hosts, /etc/hostname.*, /etc/defaultrouter, /etc/networks and /etc/ethers.
  16. Customer may not modify the system in any manner that restricts or alters access to the system by the Company's employees.
  17. Customer may acquire root privileges after successful login of a valid non-root user id and using su to gain access as root.
  18. Customer may create/update/delete all aspects of Customer created user accounts. This may include modifying home directory permissions, user passwords, etc.
  19. Customer may use FTP to create/update/delete files and directories.
  20. Customer may add to, but may not modify, existing data in the following configuration files: /etc/aliases, /etc/group, /etc/rc.local, /etc/sendmail.cf file and root crontab.
  21. Customer may install software on the server provided the installation meets all of the criteria detailed above, and the Company is notified of such installation.

Shared Windows NT, 2000 or other Microsoft Server Software Product:

  1. Customer may not create/update/delete accounts created and maintained by the Company. Specifically, Company account may not be altered in any manner.
  2. Customer may not install software that does not execute as a service.
  3. Customer may not install software that does not have a remote administration capability.
  4. Customer may not install applications that do not run within a logon account different from that of the installing user.
  5. Customer may not install applications that must be restarted when one user logs off and another user logs on.
  6. Customer may not install applications that do not execute when an individual is not logged on to the server.
  7. Customer may not modify the network and system settings of the server.
  8. Customer may not apply operating system and application patches to software not installed and solely maintained by the Customer, unless notification is given to the Company.
  9. Customer may use FTP to create/update/delete files and directories.
  10. Customer may create/update/delete all aspects of Customer created user accounts. This includes modifying home directory permissions, user passwords, etc.
  11. Customer may start and stop all Windows NT 4.0, 2000 or other Microsoft Server Software Product Services, including the WWW and FTP services.
  12. Customer may install software on the server provided the installation meets all of the criteria detailed above, and the Company is notified of the installation.