But Jack, "Review and remove unnecessary accounts" "unix" Google it.
Anyone security / audit weenie who *doesn't* put that in the policy is probably in need of the beginner book or a new job. One can argue all they want with the auditors about the philosophy and correctness of leaving them in, but in reality, the policy is still broken. And some of us need our jobs. Marcy "This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation." -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jack Woehr Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 6:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Where does "games" come from? Marcy Cortes wrote: > You can restrict them up the wazoo but if someone has written a security law > that says "remove unnecessary accounts", you'd like them to stay removed when > you remove them. > Someone needs a beginner book on Unix. -- Jack J. Woehr # <'I know what "it" means well enough, when I find http://www.well.com/~jax # a thing,' said the Duck: 'it's generally a frog or http://www.softwoehr.com # a worm.'> - Lewis Carroll, _Alice in Wonderland_ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
