|If a few people had said, "This is BS, no matter how important the jackass who ordered done" we probably |wouldn't be in the current financial crisis, nor in a quagmire in the Middle East
Exactly what we're saying to Linux recreating users we deleted.. Scott On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Jack Woehr <[email protected]> wrote: > Marcy Cortes wrote: > >> "Review and remove unnecessary accounts" "unix" >> >> > Yes, but not system accounts. Just leave them be. Honest, you're just > making work for yourself. > > 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. >> >> > > Any audit weenie who thinks the non-login games account needs to be removed > must be working somewhere > where the illusion of accomplishment is more highly valued than real > accomplishment. > > 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. >> >> > > Yeah, so you do silly things that don't need to be done and tend to the > actual detriment of the operation and security of your system. > > "I need my job" are four of the saddest words ever spoken in the mismanaged > American corporate world. > > If a few people had said, "This is BS, no matter how important the jackass > who ordered done" we probably wouldn't be in the current financial > crisis, nor in a quagmire in the Middle East. > > But that takes confidence in one's own judgment, which is not a quality > highly valued nor rewarded in the corporate and governmental > purgatories to which so many of the readers of the list are condemned. > > Which is why Linux came from outside your world. > > > -- > Jack J. Woehr # «'I know what "it" means well enough, when I > find > http://www.well.com/~jax <http://www.well.com/%7Ejax> # 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
