On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Paul Graydon <[email protected]> wrote: > > Frustrates me no end when I see sysadmins who escalate to root as the > very first thing they do on a box, even when it's totally unnecessary. > I'm not averse to using root, just avoid it unless it's actually necessary.
On the other hand, I once ran "chown username /dev/*" instead of "chown username dev/*" while setting up a chrooted FTP account, on a Solaris 2.5 system, which made it impossible for anybody to login; the only way we were able to recover the system was from my terminal window, where I was still logged in as root. Also, I've observed systems under heavy load where you couldn't login if you tried; but if you already had a root session, you had renice your shell to have a negative niceness and be able to investigate/fix the situation. So I always try to have a root window open into every server, just in case. I have tens of servers to manage currently, so this is doable. It's one of those things that would not scale to hundreds or thousands of servers. Aleksey _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
