I don't really disagree. But what makes a system admin person more or
less trustworthy than an engineer. It is important that if engineers are to
be entrusted with privileges, they must also understand the the rules.
The engineers create and work with the software assets of the company
where the system admins are the custodians. It is probably best that
privileges be granted on an individual basis. One common practice that I
kind of dislike is that sometimes, many systems on the network will have
the same root password. This leaves the network wide open, but when
you have thousands of machines to administer, this might be a
necessity.
On 22 Jun 2000, at 12:36, Derek Martin wrote:
> Jerry, you're still making the fatal mistake. You think that because YOU
> are trustworthy (and I fully believe that you are, at least until you
> start working on my network), you can trust everyone. You can't. And if
> you're the sysadmin team, you can't trust ANYONE. Not even eachother...
> not completely.
Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Associate Director
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org
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