Brian LaMere wrote:
key-based auth for root? Not happening, even if it wasn't disallowed by the DoD.
So you're saying that the DoD allows text-only access, but disallows key-based access in the same scenario?
I *could* believe that the DoD is that obtuse, but it sure would surprise me. You said this is in a hospital, or I would have chalked it up to an ISO 9000 process run amok.
When an ER is down though, anything that gets it back up sooner is what needs to happen - not some philosophical debate on whether root should exist at all. If root shouldn't exist, why does it?
Why are computers in the ER crashing *at all*? Why are the systems running Linux/Unix? And why don't those systems have a watchdog timer that automatically initiates a reboot when it detects the hang (either with or without operator acknowledgement, as required)?
Requiring someone to fetch a password to recover an ER system seems a little scary.
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