Justice Isaac Lenaola. [Photo/NTV]
The opposition coalition NASA, had earlier requested the judges at the Supreme Court to allow them to access the IEBC server in a bid to make their petition against the re-election of President-elect Uhuru Kenyatta water tight.
The court has, however, denied the opposition lawyers unfettered access to the IEBC server to audit the vote transmission process while issuing the directive Justice Isaac Lenaola said NASA is only allowed a read-only copy of information relating to the number of servers.
"The petitioner will be granted limited access to the IEBC server to protect the integrity of its system and guard against compromising the identity of its users and suppliers," said Lenaola.
Read only means NASA can only access the content of the IEBC servers but they can not make any changes or edit.
"When only read-only permission is given to file, that means only the contents can be displayed to a user, he cants make any changes to it, he can't manipulate it.When write privilege is given to a file, it means a user can change, edit, manipulate it. Write permission come with read automatically," said IT expert Alito Jakarayo.
The following is what NASA can access on the IEBC servers.
1. The number of servers used in the August 8, polls.
2. The operating system of the KIEMS kit.
3. Passwords used to access the KIEMS systems
4. GPRS locations of the KIEMS.
5. Scanned and transmitted copies of Form 34A, 34B and 34C.
6.Log-ins and trail of users of KIEMS between August 5 to date.
7. Firewall used to protect KIEMS from hackers.
8. User types on the KIEMS.
9. IEBC's ICT redundancy.
10. Certified copies of penetration tests conducted prior to and during August 8, elections.
11. Original forms 34A and 34B used to declare the final results.
12. Polling stations and their locations.
NASA is required to submit their report by Tuesday 5 pm.