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

[Kevin D. Clark]

Derek Martin writes:

>  Engineers almost never really need the root
> password to do their jobs.

On the workstation that I do most of my development on, I use my root
password nearly every day.  So do most of the engineers I work with.
I doubt a decent sysadmin could wrap all of the functionality I
require with sudo.

I know of organizations that don't let engineers and scientists have
their root passwords.  My observation is that this causes a lot of
resentment and loss of productivity.

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.

--kevin
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