Re: Bashing sea shells and bash shell (was: How do you.....)

[Benjamin Scott]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
> Yes, I understand the security implications here, but I'm telling you
> that in my experience not giving an engineer the root password causes
> more problems then it solves.

  Like anything else, I think it depends on what you're doing, and the
environment in which you're doing it.

  If one is doing pure user-land application development on a shared machine,
then I don't think one needs superuser access.  On the other end of the
spectrum (no pun intended), if you're working with low-level networking code
on a dedicated workstation, I think you're justified in wanting the root
password.

  Naturally, most things fall someplace in-between.  It is a judgment call
that needs to be made on a case-by-case basis, not covered in some blanket
policy.

-- 
Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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